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269 People Joined An Age Discrimination Class Action Suit Against Google (bizjournals.com)
Slashdot reader #9,119 BrookHarty writes:
"269 people have joined a class-action lawsuit against Google claiming they were discriminated against in the workplace based on their age..." reports BizJournals. "The lawsuit originated in 2015 with plaintiff Robert Heath and was certified as a class-action in 2016." Google has stated it has implemented policies to stop age discrimination but still has an average employee age of 29.
In 2004 Larry Page fired Brian Reid nine days before IPO costing Reid 45 million in unvested stock options. Reid was fired for lack of "cultural fit". Reid has settled for an undisclosed amount.
In 2004 Larry Page fired Brian Reid nine days before IPO costing Reid 45 million in unvested stock options. Reid was fired for lack of "cultural fit". Reid has settled for an undisclosed amount.
In 2004 Larry Page fired Brian Reid nine days before IPO costing Reid 45 million in unvested stock options. Reid was fired for lack of "cultural fit". Reid has settled for an undisclosed amount.
Wow. That's quite something. I had no idea that Hölzle was such a little piece of shit:
'He was fired by Larry Page (who was 30 at the time) in February 2004, after being told he was not a "cultural fit" by Rosing, and that his ideas were "too old to matter" by Hölzle, according to Reid.'
Ezekiel 23:20
Is that really the average age of all employees or an "Engineer" positions age?
According to TFA, 29 is the median age of all employees at both Google and Facebook.
TFA says the "29" comes from the Huffington Post, and provides a link. Follow the link to Huffington Post, and they say the number came from ComputerWorld and PayScale.com. ComputerWorld pulls the number from a claim in Robert Heath's lawsuit, the subject of TFA, thus closing the circle.
It's about imposing a meritocracy, which conservatives should be all for. The best qualified candidate gets the job, regardless of race, age, nepotism, or whatever else. It's all about what you can do and how well you can do it relative to everyone else.
Thats exactly what the fired google employee was trying to say and we all see how well that went
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No, I'm saying that companies discriminate above and beyond that for the very rational reason that people from under-represented protected classes represent a risk to the company come firing time. At will employment laws don't really help in that regard, since the civil rights act pre-empts it.
"In fact, on average, damages are probably relatively low in hiring cases, reinforcing incentives to avoid hiring protected-class members and to risk lawsuits from applicants rather than employees"
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Of course none of this is official policy, ever said out loud, or even admitted to themselves by people in these companies a lot of the time. We in the west are very good at maintaining culpable deniability at all times. That's why the only way to really get a given statistical distribution you think is fair is to punish companies based purely on statistical evidence, as happens with companies fulfilling federal contracts as the book points out. Do you really want this level of central planning for the economy in general though?
That would be the fake left. The ideology of the real left is left = workers and right = bosses and issues that affect every worker, universal health care, a living wage for all workers, equal access to democracy and equal access to justice. The fake left, the main stream media fabrication, the SJW tools of the bosses, the one designed to break up left = workers, sure "genital mutilation of the acceptable kind?!?" is an issue but make not mistake it is not an issue for the majority of workers or the real left.
Google has a rock solid reputation for being ageist and this from the very beginning, the only reason they a starting to change, is to protect the already employed who grew old at Google whilst they rabidly excluded all other older people, now it's their turn and well, well, it's time to change the rules.
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