Compan­ies includ­ing T-Mobile US, Amazon and Cox Commun­icatio­ns impose­d age limits­Several US employers engaged in age discrimination by placing recruitment ads on Facebook targeting younger workers, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by a communications industry labor union. Companies including T-Mobile US, Amazon and Cox Communications imposed age limits on who could see recruitment ads, limiting some only to people younger than 38, according to the lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco by the Communications Workers of America. “We recently audited our recruiting ads on Facebook and discovered some had targeting that was inconsistent with our approach of searching for any candidate over the age of 18,” Amazon said. The complaint included images of employment recruitment ads that when clicked upon by a user, bring up a screen specifying the age group to which the ad was targeted. Lawyers will seek class action status for the case and plan to add defendants, he said.

Source: The Express Tribune December 22, 2017 12:11 UTC