Age Discrimination, Indian-Style

theodp writes "In April, IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano told investors Big Blue hopes to dodge an estimated $6 billion in liability stemming from a judge's ruling that IBM violated U.S. federal age discrimination laws. In May, IBM closes on its $150-$200MM purchase of Indian outsourcer Daksh, whose age requirements for job applicants make Logan's Run seem progressive. On its Opportunities page, Daksh states that Customer Care Specialists should be between 21-25 years of age and Team Leaders should be no older than 27. Early Daksh investors included Citigroup and we-don't-need-no-stinking-unions Amazon."

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Your mom

[Anonymous Coward]

Your mom is unrelated.

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark!

[BlueUnderwear]

ObOntopic: software patents lead to Outsourcing. Indeed, rather than run the risk of being sued for patent infringment, software companies will prefer to outsource their actual development to places (such as India) where there are no software patents yet, rather than do it in their homecountry, and expose themselves to potentially expensive patent litigiation.

That being said, if you happen to be Danish, please carefully watch the following clip:

There is something rotten in the State of Denmark

Ok, no matter what the issue is: please consider your national pride, your national dignity! Do you really value representatives that let themselves be shoved around, and give an easy yes, rather than defending your country's best interests?

But the good news is, there is still a way out. Yes, changing your vote now may be viewed as an admission that you (you're representative) screwed up, or didn't know the subject matter. But it also shows courage and the willingness to correct errors once they become known.

Ok, as a Luxembourg I must admit that I sit in a glasshouse here. I hereby encourage my countrypeople to do something about it, and contact our ministry of economy about the matter, and encourage them to review their vote.

Remember: we are only two votes short of winning, and every country, no matter how small can make a difference, be it Denmark, Luxembourg, or even Malta!

Re:Let's make one thing crystal clear

[j-pimp]

Spoken like someone who should have his dick cut off, because he obviously doesn't deserve it and couldn't handle the responsibility of being a father.
Perhaps the grandparent post does come off a little harsh. Let me attempt to reply to this.
Pregnancy is expensive medically. As a right wing religious nut pro lifer, my response to fellow pro-lifers attacking the AMA's classification of pregnancy as a disease is ,it is a God damn fucking disease!!!. A beautiful wonder miraclous disease that lets you take part in Gods miracle of creation, but still a fucking disease.
Naturally, healthcare providers have reason to take into account that pregnancy is preventable. However, continuation of the species, and the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness has to balance all this.
With regard to maternity leave, it is basically paid vacation. Vacation is expensive for an employeer. From the employees side, it is a great help in the balance between work and family.
Now, basically prenatal care and maternity leave are expensive. Covering prenatal care via health insurance partially paid by work would be non discriminatory. Being most jobs have a family healthcare option, it is equally expensive to insure a married man or a married woman. Civil unions and common marriages are a topic for another debate. So, yes if ladies want pregnancy paid for, its gonna cost someone else, but in this case the burden falls equally on employeers of mothers and fathers.
Paid maternity leave costs the same as equal time paid vacation. Unpaid maternity leave is inconvient on the employeer. I work technical support. Being there are times I am the only tech on duty, it would be hard for me to do my job if my dentist told me he had to break my jaw and wire it shut for 6 weeks. In my particular situation, it would be easier for my employeer to give me a leave of absense, not have me work day shift on non call releated issues. However, if my dentist said 6 months, it really might be alot easier if I gave notice. It would inconvience me, but an employeers only responsibility is to make payroll as long as you show p to work and do the agreed job.
Some people would say my employeer should be required to take me back, I don't. Perhaps its cause I'm young, single, and stupid. I would like to think otherwise.

Re:Let's make one thing crystal clear

[nelsonal]

If you want to learn more about the Randian philisophy, you should read Ayn Rand. Her magnum opus is Atlas Shrugged, however, most people (even those who agree with her) don't make it through the 60+ page manefesto near the end. Her writing style is most unique as well. The Fountainhead is another book by her. Her philiosiphy is a varient of libertarianism that focuses on the individual. As such her philisophy differs from libertarianism by being much more utilitarian than most bents of libertarianism. One could fit a person's value being signficnatly more than things into most libertarian views, while her rationalism places only the value of a person fitting their output. Even though I'd put myself squarely in the libertarian camp, I didn't particularly care for her work. Although part of that could have been her rejection of nearly all istitutions regardless of their use. I will grant her that growing up in Soviet Russia is likely going to have such an effect on a future libertarian.
My own firm belief is that we should assign resposibities to the governement that they can carry out more effeciently than we can individually. (More susinctly the only function of government is to reduce transaction costs). As technology changes those transaction costs government should step out of the way. It's a nice correlary ot Coase's law government should expand to the point it is producing goods that cannot be accomplished by market negotiations. Odd how that works Coase's therum in as well. That guy was freaking brilliant. If I could offer one bit of advice to this year's crop of graduates it would be to understand "The Nature of a Firm" and "The Problem of Social Costs."