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Reimagining Age Equality At Work
There’s an ambivalence in age discrimination law.
Now, age equality needs a voice to ensure a more equal future in the workplace
In 2015, the Australian Human Rights Commission found that 27 per cent of older workers had experienced age discrimination at work in the last two years.
- By Associate Professor Alysia Blackham, University of Melbourne; Associate Professor Anne Hewitt, University of Adelaide and Dr Jack Lam, University of Queensland
- Legal Affairs
- Pursuit
Seven years on, little has changed.
Age discrimination is still common in the workplace, affecting both older and younger workers.
There’s an inherent ambivalence in…