In some countries, it is
illegal for companies to reject job applicant for their age. Is this a positive
or a negative development?
Indubitably, there are laws against age discrimination to
safe guard elder workers seeking employment in workforce. It is believed that
employers can not reject any application applied by senior workers because laws
does not allow them to do so. However, this topic is being hotly debated, it is
both constructive and destructive trend.
Fundamentally, it hold plethora of constructive benefits.
Firstly, many organization prefer someone who has a considerable experience in
a specific area to cater to the needs of the organization. Seemingly, there are
myriad benefits o having an elder employee than their younger counterparts as
with age comes experience. Henceforth, They can utilize their learning and
implement their mind in a better manner. Moreover, one should not be
discrimination against anyone on any basis. Subsequently, there may be certain
areas where age and the experience play a pivotal role and in no manner can be
substituted. For instance, the tribune newspaper published the article that
last year Tata motors has achieved the prestigious place in the job market, as
the company hired almost 50 to 60% employee over 40 and they are more
experienced and gave a good performance to excel in company.
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On the other hand
there are myriad detrimental effects of this trend. Chiefly, one prominent
issue arise from prohibiting the companies to refuse their job’s applicant due
to their ages is it can lead to serious company loss. Consequently, it is
because some job’s positions require adequate experience which commonly owned
by those I productive age which is between 30 -35 years. Therefore, it is
restricted to take age into account for selecting new employees, the companies
will be dominated by unqualified staffs. Consequently, the companies will face adversely
as they should pay several amount of dollars for those employee do not have
neither skills nor ability to favour the companies’ outcomes. Additionally,
health and safety of labour are the paramount priorities over all companies
therefore the age should be one factor to be considered otherwise it will
damage the labour’s health and safety. To vindicate, mechanical occupations
like petroleum engineers is one of the job that physically demanding thus the
applicants who apply for this job should have a vigorous body and healthy mind.
Hence this kind of job is not for elderly age people as they are not
appropriate for this job.
Suffice to say that
albeit, several states consider that involving age in to prerequisite of job’s
selection is illegal procedure. However, it confines the company to recruit
potential staff based on their need. In addition health and safety is most
important thing for every company. Yet on broader spectrum there should be
balance between age and experience.
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