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mukmuk • today at 4:57 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Isn’t this illegal?

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throwaway2037 • today at 5:42 AM

In the United States (where most Cloudflare employees work):

    > The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) forbids age discrimination against people who are age 40 or older.
To answer your question: Probably not. Even so, it is incredibly hard to prove workers 40 and older were laid off as a result of age discrimination.
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Analemma_ • today at 4:59 AM

Only if you're dumb enough to leave a paper trail showing that's what you did.

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xingped • today at 5:00 AM

Just your average Thursday in American capitalism!

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kakadu • today at 5:03 AM

Making it illegal would be communism

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