Sentences with phrase «arbitrary age limit»

I won't change how I dress because I've surpassed an arbitrary age limit, that someone else has randomly chosen, like a best before date on food packaging.

«People are living longer and healthier lives than ever, and the last thing we want is to lose their skills and experience from the workplace due to an arbitrary age limit.

«People are living longer and healthier lives than ever, and the last thing we want is to lose their talent and enthusiasm from the workplace due to an arbitrary age limit,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith said.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

Not exact matches

The age requirement is an arbitrary limit, that has been challenged since at least the early 20th century.

Age limits are arbitrary and parents must assess when a child has the social skills for social media, eSafety watchdog says.

It's a mode of being as well as an age: the time when you gain both independence and an agonizing knowledge of the limits of independence, the toil and arbitrary luck involved in going anywhere.

Instead of homeless animals dying due to lack of space, an arbitrary time limit, lack of exposure, untreated medical conditions, undesirable physical traits, age or physical disability, they are saved and adopted into loving forever homes.