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0 pointslesuorac3y ago0 comments

People do sue for not getting hired.

https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/ruby-tuesday-pay-45000-settle-...

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lapcat3y ago· 2 in thread

Yes, age discrimination is illegal.

If your feedback is "You're too old", then you probably shouldn't give that feedback to the applicant. But you also shouldn't discriminate in the first place.

If not giving feedback is an excuse to cover up illegal behavior, that's not a good excuse.

paxys3y ago

Legal does not have the time to screen 100% of feedback sent out to job seekers, and there’s plenty that a regular employee can say or write in casual conversation that can be used as fodder in a lawsuit. Hence the reason for these blanket policies. This isn’t some conspiracy theory but the reality of how corporations work.

lapcat3y ago

> there’s plenty that a regular employee can say or write in casual conversation that can be used as fodder in a lawsuit

Again, unless you're talking about illegal discrimination, I'd like to see the relevant court cases cited for this "fodder".

If companies are covering up illegal discrimination, it's not a conspiracy theory, it's simply a conspiracy.

Moreover, people are claiming or speculating that there are blanket company policies against job applicant feedback. I have yet to hear anyone confirm this from the inside. Are there also blanket company policies that you must "ghost" job applicants, as many companies do? And what's the "legal" reason for that?

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