Comment on This person's rejection reason

• Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I honestly think there’s a gray area here and it’s worth talking to a lawyer if anything. There are certainly some protections for peoples under 40. Being denied a promotion because you’re “too young” is certainly a protection. The catch is you have to prove it.

  This case is easy to prove though if there are any laws over this.

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I believe it’s legal in the US to pass someone over for promotion because they’re too young. The only protected class related to age is being over 40 (potentially different in some states).

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    but now that I think about it, this is only really a protection if you’re already hired at the place. If you just slam the door on people before they can get in, discrimination seems to be legal.

    Pretty sure that protection so applies to the application process. Can’t have places rejecting every non-white candidate for being the wrong race. The problem is proving that you were rejected for a BS reason is really hard because they usually don’t flat out say it, and especially not in writing

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  • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being denied a promotion because you’re “too young” is certainly a protection.

    It’s not actually. Age protections really do only apply to old people. If the person in the post is over 40 though, and got rejected for their birthday, they could probably at least get the company to overturn the rejection. Not sure how well they’d do in court. Most of this stuff doesn’t get enforced well, and that one is already a stretch

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whelp, time for arson then. Sorry, it’s the rules.

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• pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What about star sign? That’s got to be illegal, and it’s p close to this

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  • GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They listed the protected classes. Which one is astrology?

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    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah yeah not protected, but same could be said for requiring blond hair or blue eyes. Still discrimination

      I am not a lawyer

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      • NateSwift@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They did specifically list genetics

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      • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because requiring blond hair and blue eyes would, by definition, exclude people based on race.

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      • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And that’s probably for the better.

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