FAQs

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Can employers specify a minimum number of years' experience in job advertisements?
Is it unlawful to ask for applicants' date of birth on application forms?
Can employers stipulate in job adverts that applications from individuals who have reached, or are approaching, retirement age will not be accepted?
Is it lawful for employers to discriminate in favour of a person of a particular age or persons in a particular age group?
Under the age discrimination provisions of the Equality Act 2010 is an employer prevented from using job titles including the words "senior" and "junior"?
Is it permissible for an employer to stipulate in a job advert that candidates must be "recent graduates"?
Can employers still request applicants' work and education history, with dates, on their application forms?
Can an employer stipulate an age limit for a job?
Is it unlawful to include a preferred age range in a job advertisement?

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Frequently asked questions and answers on age discrimination in recruitment.