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Regardless of whether it's justified or not, can someone explain how age discrimination could be proofed in such a case? Especially in this quickly evolving ind
by blauditore 10y ago
Regardless of whether it's justified or not, can someone explain how age discrimination could be proofed in such a case? Especially in this quickly evolving industry, Google may always find arguments like "candidate A had never worked with XY, but candidate B had, so we took B" to explain decisions.
- muse900 10y agoAm not a lawyer. My closest guess is that this lawfirm is going to provide an X amount of cases that passed screening etc and have relevant experience to the job as described in its advertisement. Then its really up to the Judge and the jury if such a case has a jury to decide.
- matt4077 10y agoThe US legal system has this interesting "discovery phase" where the parties basically get to request all possibly relevant data from the other side. They'll try to find incriminating mails or other documents. They could also work with statistics. Google being google, they most certainly have enormous amounts of data on their recruitment process. I'd even bet Google has algorithms to uncover discrimination in its hiring – biases are bad for business, after all. They may not have had age discrimination on their radar, but whatever they have on race/gender/dog-vs-cat-owners should be easily adaptable.