Wednesday 1 April 2009

Age discrimination in cafe job applications

Is it illegal for a cafe to refuse to take a job application, or to refuse to consider it, because you are over 18? I would think that falls pretty clearly into the category of age discrimination. While they may want to hire people to fulfil "junior" positions, my understanding is that "junior" is only allowed to be lazy-speak for casual hours, supervised positions. Something like that, anyway. It certainly can't mean literally "under 18". So if it's illegal or even just plain wrong, why is it so common?

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Years ago I was turned down from some desperate job applications for being too old.
PPS - Any lawyers in the audience?

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