A German employment court has ruled that a job ad
‘looking for cool guys' (coole Typen) discriminated
against a job applicant who identified as female on the grounds of
her sex, but not of her age.
In order to score points in the race for suitable applicants,
employers try to dinstinguish themselves from the competition with
the wording of their job advertisements. In doing so, they
sometimes resort to colloquial expressions, but this can run the
risk of violating the prohibition on discrimination in the German
Equal Treatment Act. The Koblenz Labour Court recently ruled on
whether a job ad looking for ‘cool guys' (coole Typen)
constituted age or gender discrimination (9 February 2022 –
7Ca 2291/21).
