Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
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Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#2Excellent news! Up until age 39, I was never not given an offer after interviewing. Now after 40, my offer rate has dropped to 1 in 14. So much for the claims that there is a shortage in tech. So crazy.
Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#3Excellent news! Up until age 39, I was never not given an offer after interviewing. Now after 40, my offer rate has dropped to 1 in 14. So much for the claims that there is a shortage in tech. So crazy.
This is something different. The suit is not claiming that there's discrimination in the hiring processes, but in who sees the ads for the jobs in the first place.
Should it be illegal to advertise a job or housing in Black Enterprise magazine, because the readers are overwhelmingly African American? Or illegal to advertise in the Wall Street Journal because they're not?
Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#4Excellent news! Up until age 39, I was never not given an offer after interviewing. Now after 40, my offer rate has dropped to 1 in 14. So much for the claims that there is a shortage in tech. So crazy.
This is something different. The suit is not claiming that there's discrimination in the hiring processes, but in who sees the ads for the jobs in the first place. Should it be illegal to advertise a job or housing in Black Enterprise magazine, because the readers are overwhelmingly African American? Or illegal to advertise in the Wall Street Journal because they're not?
Do you think that's the same thing as is alleged in the submission?
Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#5Excellent news! Up until age 39, I was never not given an offer after interviewing. Now after 40, my offer rate has dropped to 1 in 14. So much for the claims that there is a shortage in tech. So crazy.
This is something different. The suit is not claiming that there's discrimination in the hiring processes, but in who sees the ads for the jobs in the first place. Should it be illegal to advertise a job or housing in Black Enterprise magazine, because the readers are overwhelmingly African American? Or illegal to advertise in the Wall Street Journal because they're not?
The difference is WSJ doesn't have an option that says "only show this ad to white readers".
Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#6I'm not sure I agree that it's Facebook's fault that people use its platform to target ads illegally, but clearly you shouldn't be targeting job ads to people by age.
Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#7Excellent news! Up until age 39, I was never not given an offer after interviewing. Now after 40, my offer rate has dropped to 1 in 14. So much for the claims that there is a shortage in tech. So crazy.
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Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#8So, where do the veterans go? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17179054
Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#9I know almost nothing about the law here, but I imagine intent could be a big part of it. I'm surprised the Bloomberg article seems to make no mention of it.
I was also surprised to see this:
> Goldman wrote that, “Used responsibly, age-based targeting for employment purposes is an accepted industry practice and for good reason: it helps employers recruit and people of all ages find work.”
Why would it ever be acceptable to deliberately filter on the grounds of age?
Re: Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims
#10I mean, are we going to start suing companies who go to career fairs at colleges too?