Getting employed requires a lot of qualifications in terms of educational background, working experience, skills, age and even gender. However, there’s one qualification that creates a certain degree of discomfort in the job-hunting public, which is age restrictions. Some people call it “age discrimination”.
There is a law prohibiting age discrimination in the Philippines. However, age discrimination in hiring still gets in the way of job-hunters in the form of age restrictions, such as those in job advertisements indicating that only those within a particular age range would be qualified.
What we’re concerned about here are those who are qualified for the job, except that they’re way over the qualified age range. In the Philippines, there are jobs that bar out even applicants as young as 28 or 30 years old. Being denied a job opportunity because of age, to some people, could translate to being denied the chance to earn a living for their families. Such instances could dampen self-esteem, and even give a misconception that there’s an age limit to being fit for a job.
In order to help the people to get a job, we must first deal with age discrimination as it is one of the factors that is hindering the poor and elderly from getting a job and support their family.
1 comment:
I think this issue is very relevant as in the 21st century where people view Human Rights as something of importance, the issue of Ageism may very well question how much rights we actually have.
By Nurul Natasha
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