According to the EEOC's lawsuit, iTutorGroup programmed their tutor application software to automatically reject female applicants aged 55 or older and male applicants aged 60 or older. iTutorGroup rejected more than 200 qualified applicants based in the United States because of their age.
Curated from content.govdelivery.com · 9 August 2023 →
The first case the EEOC settled over discriminatory hiring software, in August 2023, for 365,000 US dollars split between compensatory damages and back pay. It is worth reading precisely because there is no algorithm to blame: nothing was learned from data and nothing drifted. Somebody wrote a rule with an age in it, the software applied it two hundred times, and the company's position was that this was its recruitment process. The settlement also required an anti-discrimination policy, training, and an injunction against asking applicants for their date of birth. Read next to the Amazon case: one is a model that learned a bias and one is a rule that was typed in, and to the person rejected they are indistinguishable.
