Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads

Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by SAI_Peregrinus on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:07AM (#21115479)

Sex is a federally protected class[1]. Discrimination in employment decisions based on any federally protected class is illegal, and can carry rather large fines.

Using a job board that explicitly discriminates based on a protected class is a very, very risky idea. If a member of the untargeted portion of the class (a male) sees a job ad there and is denied employment they have very good evidence for a sex discrimination lawsuit.

[1] https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ibb0a38daef0511e28...

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by stakhanov on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:43AM (#21116567)

The next time I (male) am looking for a job, I will make a specific point of seeking out job advertisements targeted at women in tech and applying, just to see what happens.

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by captainredbeard on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:39AM (#21116503)

Unfortunately, the Department of Justice chooses to not enforce this law when the offending objective is to hire anything but white males. It should be enforced equally.

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Re:Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers f... by hmry on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:38PM (#21138346)

Do you have any sources for that?

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