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Since age discrimination laws only protect discrimination against people over 40 (you can legally exclude people for being young), I've thought it may be intere
by fossuser 7y ago
Since age discrimination laws only protect discrimination against people over 40 (you can legally exclude people for being young), I've thought it may be interesting to use this explicitly.
If age discrimination is actually happening in tech that means there is a large amount of people 40+ that are not being properly valued in the market.
It'd be cool to explicitly target these people by having jobs ads only for people 40+ (and it'd be neat to have mentorship of younger hires be a component of these jobs).
No idea how that would work out, but seemed interesting to target for recruiting.
- alexchamberlain 7y agoIs that in the US? Discrimination laws don't have a minimum age in the UK.
- ajdlinux 7y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employment_Act_of_1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employme..., it appears so.
- carmenbr 7y agoYes, that's an idea the could be explored. Some countries age discrimination is not even considered a crime. The problem detected is: in tech, the age discrimination starts earlier than 40, but at 36. What companies need to realise is a diversity staff can generate more money and produce more
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Some countries age discrimination is not even considered a crime. It's not a crime in the US, either. It is a statutory tort, though.
- sansnomme 7y agoThe reverse needs to be true, you can't bar someone for being young using the usual excuse of inexperience. Want anti age discrimination policies to get popular support? Make sure it goes both ways.
- joker3 7y agoThere's a certain asymmetry here. If you're under 25, that'll eventually fix itself, but once you're over 40, you're going to be over 40 for the rest of your life. Given that, it doesn't really make sense to treat these two cases exactly the same.