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Older workers press age discrimination claims in challenge to IBM layoffs
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- throwaway5486nv 5y agoEmbrace Remote Work. Its hard to detect age if you color your hair or wear toupee and its illegal to ask age during interviews. Covid has been a blessing. I am also betting on video software's to remove wrinkles in my skin.
- scrpn 5y agothey can compute age based on bachelor degree and high school dates.
- petre 5y agoThen don't list dates on your resume
- grepfru_it 5y agoI went back to school in an attempt to get a second degree but never actually finished. I still put it on my resume. The thing is it was 10 years ago and obscures my first degree from 20 years ago! The downside is it lumps me in with other candidates from that era.
- notfromhere 5y agoDegrees get verified on background checks. If an employer wants to age discriminate, that won't stop them.
- throwaway5486nv 5y agoIts a lot of work to verify age. What is actually happening is if you look old they discriminate based on assumption. People overestimate age of bald people like myself.
- petre 5y agoThat's why it's also not a great idea to put a photo on your resume.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoIs the best strategy to resolve discrimination against X to pretend one is not X?
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- forgatmigej 5y agoAbsolutely yes, if you want to minimize downside to yourself
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoThat depends on whether you want to fix the world today, or get a job today.
- mathattack 5y agoThis exists today in Zoom.