• blaine@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @ocassionallyaduck

    @The_Picard_Maneuver

    Not true in the US. They could ban anyone born in the entire month of April, or anyone who “looks like a pot smoker” if they wanted to.

    Applicants, employees and former employees are ONLY protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history).

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if an argument could be made that birthdate is a component of your genetic information including family medical history? It is also potentially age discrimination?

      • Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        Technically this is discrimination based on age.

        They were born 4/20/(year). You could make an argument they are discriminating all people exactly (X) years, 4 months, and 2 days old.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah we typically thing age discrimination is saying we only hire people between 20-40y/o but it would also cover it if you said “I won’t hire someone 21 years old only” and still applies to banning someone 21.5 years old. And 21 years and 6 months and 27 days old.

          Same applies if I ban anyone with an age divisible by 3. It’s a group of people, but if their age has anything to do with why you aren’t hiring them then I’d say this applies.

        • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Are you being sarcastic? Or does being rejected for a job for being ‘too young’ fall under a different discrimination law?
          (Genuine question, i have no idea)