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US Judge Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Accusing X of Age Bias in 2022 Layoffs (www.gadgets360.com)
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US Judge Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Accusing X of Age Bias in 2022 Layoffs::A US federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing X, the social media service formerly called Twitter, of disproportionately laying off older workers when Elon Musk acquired the company last year.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Zeman, for example, claims that X laid off 60 percent of workers who were 50 or older and nearly three-quarters of those who were over 60, compared with 54 percent of employees younger than 50.

Just a reminder there's no protection from being treated badly for being young, only for being old.

If you're 35 and up for a promotion, it's completely legal for your company to flat out say you're not old enough. Or in this case twitter could have laid off 100% of under 35 year old employees and no one else.

Because old people make the rules.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Elon's old though.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Because he's "special".

I have zero trouble believing he'd fire people younger than he is because they're "too old". But as a special snowflake genius, he'd never consider himself too old.