Regardless of authorized protections towards age discrimination and record-high job vacancies, a big variety of Australian organizations are reluctant to recruit potential staff over the age of fifty, a brand new survey revealed.
Almost one-fifth, or 18%, of Australian HR professionals expressed a whole reluctance or solely a restricted willingness to actively recruit staff between 50 and 64 years of age, in line with a report launched on Tuesday by the Australian Human Rights Fee (AHRC), in partnership with the Australian HR Institute (AHRI).
AHRI Chief Govt Officer, Sarah McCann-Bartlet described the findings as “disappointing”, saying in a statement that “organisations are doing themselves a disservice by not contemplating older staff – notably at a time when Australia is experiencing traditionally excessive ranges of job vacancies.”
The response of Australian organisations in recruiting older individuals reveal a breach of Australia’s Age Discrimination Act 2004 (Cth) which, per part 3(a), goals “to get rid of, so far as doable, discrimination towards individuals on the grounds of age within the areas of labor.”
Source / Picture: jurist.org
