Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech

Re:Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech by fossuser on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:27PM (#20253124)

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.

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Re:Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech by carmenbr on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:47AM (#20253998)

Yes, 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

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Re:Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech by dragonwriter on Sunday June 23, 2019 @04:49AM (#20254005)

> 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.

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Re:Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech by alexchamberlain on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:01AM (#20253231)

Is that in the US? Discrimination laws don't have a minimum age in the UK.

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Re:Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech by ajdlinux on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:14AM (#20253278)

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_Discrimination_in_Employme..., it appears so.

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Re:Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech by sansnomme on Sunday June 23, 2019 @08:57AM (#20255173)

The 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.

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Re:Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech by joker3 on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:37PM (#20268192)

There'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.

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