When you’re pushing 50, you will find that simply going to a Philippine job hiring site and leveraging your decades of experience and contacts sometimes won’t be enough to land you your next job, no matter how qualified you are. Unfortunately, age discrimination in the job market is alive and well, and it’s extremely difficult to prove such in many instances.
While it’s only natural that organizations take steps to find the best and brightest to fill their ranks, the way some try to do this is not only illogical but unethical and illegal as well. In the Philippines, hiring discrimination based on age is undoubtedly all three, and the existence of R.A. 10911, the “Anti-age Discrimination In Employment Act” theoretically puts the full force of the law in combatting this injustice.
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