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Recent reports that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found technology company Intel had discriminated against eight older workers during mass layoffs in 2015 have shed light on a topic that often remains in the dark: age discrimination against older workers in IT.
It’s an issue that never seems to go away, and it can hinder career advancement for IT professionals even at a time when many tech skills are in high demand. Given that a large share of professionals in the workforce are nearing traditional retirement ages, the number of discrimination cases may only rise.
Noah Feldman
Bloomberg Opinion
Attorney General Merrick Garland is contesting a court order that would require disclosure of an internal Department of Justice memo sent to former AG William Barr. The subject: why not to prosecute Donald Trump.
Garlandâs decision is a Rorschach test for anyone interested in restoring normalcy and credibility to the Department of Justice after the institutional bloodbath of the Trump years.
From the standpoint of transparency and openness, the public should see the memo to better understand what went wrong in Trumpâs DOJ. But from the standpoint of returning to the departmentâs traditional norms â including the norm of depoliticizing criminal prosecution decisions â the refusal to disclose is weirdly reassuring. Itâs a sign that the Biden Department of Justice will reaffirm the departmentâs commitment to confidentiality and not use the DOJ, as Trump tried to, to score political points.