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Facebook, Amazon, and hundreds of companies post targeted job ads that screen out older workers

Facebook users are suing them for age discrimination.

Older workers are accusing Facebook, Ikea, and hundreds of other companies for discriminating against job seekers in their 50s and 60s through targeted job ads posted on Facebook.

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Union Steps Up Suit Against Big Biz Over Facebook Job Ads

The Communication Workers of America expanded its proposed class action Tuesday alleging Amazon, T-Mobile and "hundreds of major American employers" illegally target younger workers in Facebook job ads, adding federal age-bias claims and broadening the case's theory to target Facebook’s audience...

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Plaintiffs Lawyers Hit Facebook Algorithm in Age-Bias Job Recruitment Suit

“The takeaway here is that algorithms may not care about civil rights laws, but we do and the law does,” Outten & Golden's Peter Romer-Friedman...

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Facebook Tools Are Used to Screen Out Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Claims

A proposed class action lawsuit alleging Facebook’s ad placement tools facilitate discrimination against older job-seekers has been expanded to identify additional companies, further widening the latest front in claims that candidates are being filtered out by gender, geography, race and age....

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Older Workers Open Up New Fronts in Campaign to Stop Age Bias By Hundreds of Major Employers Who Have Hidden Job Ads from Older Workers on Facebook

Contact: Peter Romer-Friedman, Outten & Golden, 718-938-6132 or ...

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