CVs encourage age discrimination - DWP

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Using a CV to assess the suitability of a potential employee could present age discrimination, suggest reports produced by the DWP.

According to studies into nine different business sectors – from business services and construction to manufacturing and retail – more work still needs to be done to ensure firms do not break age discrimination rules when they come into force in October 2006. Findings of the analysis by the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce suggest fixing a starting salary to the length of experience, for example, could be considered discriminatory - as eight market sectors do so - while using age data in any part of the candidate selection process is also seen as “indirectly discriminatory”. ...

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