Summary: One of the areas in which age discrimination has some of its greatest and most destructive impacts is the arena of employment. Attitudes to older people are such that employers often apply incorrect stereotypes to mature age workers when deciding not to select them for a job. Yet at the same time, there are in-built barriers in things like workers' compensation, income insurance and essential professional licences that actively discourage employers from hiring older people and effectively push those people out of the workforce. To discuss this issue, Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Graeme Innes, is joined by Age Discrimination Commissioner, Susan Ryan, who has just released Working Past Our 60s: Reforming Laws and Policies for the Older Worker paper.
