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In some countries, it is now illegal for employers to reject job applicants because of their age. Is this a positive or negative development?

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In some countries, it is now illegal for employers to reject
job
 applicants because of their
age
.
From
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 my opinion, I think
this
 could be a positive development.
First
 of all, I consider that amount of experience is directly proportional to how long that person lived. So
age
 should be one of the concerns in
job
 applications.
Old aged
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people
 could be way more advanced in specific
skills
.
Such
 as financial management or it might be communication
skills
 within
business
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. But
then
 it doesn’t mean that
young aged
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 applications should be all rejected, sometimes the new knowledge learnt is more useful than experience. Computer science, technology and IOT could be examples of what young
people
 can do well without any experience.
Secondly
, I don’t think that judging
people
with
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 their
age
 is fair. Nowadays, human rights aren’t decided by
genders
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gender
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, religion or skin colour. And I think
age
 should
also
 be one of these. While we can’t fasten or reverse back our ages, all the
age
 is still a person who lives. And there shouldn’t be any unfairness
within
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 those living
people
. Despite the fact that all
age
 groups have different potential, thinking, and knowledge, it is
the
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 fact that unfairness will occur. But we still can try to be fair in
job
 applications by considering their
skills
 and qualifications, not by their
age
. To conclude,
age
 still is one of the considerations when choosing the applicants who applied for the
job
, but it shouldn't be judged just by the fact that the person is old or young. We can start having fair connections between us and
to
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apply
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improve our
skills
 and technologies.
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