Hiring Discrimination Legality
Debate on whether hiring practices discriminating against non-protected classes are legal under US employment law, including discussions of protected classes, disparate impact, and proxies for discrimination.
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No, there are not. (In the USA) You are legally allowed to discriminate based on non-protected classes as long as the non-protected class is not being used as a proxy for a protected class.
How is this not discrimination of protected classes, and therefore illegal?
There are laws that prohibit discrimination even for private companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_...
No actually you can’t use such things legally. Discrimination is discrimination no matter how you bury it with indirection.
Discrimination of that type in hiring contexts is illegal already, IIRC.
There's a big difference between banning discrimination against protected classes and mandating discrimination in their favor, which is what this basically does, see the comment and discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304639
This is not the case in USA, under the legal theory of "disparate impact".https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
Except for discrimination laws...
that would be discrimination. your country likely has laws to deal with this.
The law prohibits discrimination against members of a protected class. You can legally discriminate against anyone else.