A Federal Agency's Bogus Battle to Keep College Grads Out of Work | Economics21

A Federal Agency's Bogus Battle to Keep College Grads Out of Work | Economics21:
"This article originally appeared on The Hill.
One of the most efficient ways for American employers to fill entry-level positions is through college-campus recruiting and similar programs, which bring the employers directly to younger workers.
Such programs are extraordinarily convenient for the students, too, as they allow them to interview with multiple employers in a short time-frame at a location that’s convenient for them.
It’s very possible that many readers of this article got their first job through just such a program.
But in recent years, federal bureaucrats at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have declared that such programs should be reclassified as a presumptively illegal form of age discrimination, even when an employer does not intend to discriminate because of age.
According to the EEOC, college recruiting may be age discrimination because most students and recent graduates are under the age of 40, and recruiting them therefore has a “disparate impact” on older workers..."