is increasingly difficult to find jobs, including requirements as disappointing and hard as the top of this story - "Refrain over 50" - and to veto veteran candidates. "If there is no objective reason for the age to perform a job, writing this kind of statement in the offers would not be admissible, it would be illegal because it would lead to discrimination in employment on grounds of age, which prohibits the English Constitution, "says Inigo Sagardoy, managing partner of the firm Sagardoy Attorneys.
In practice, however, age is a barrier to access to employment and promotion opportunities limited, while more vulnerable to layoff workers. The Commissioner for Equal Opportunities of the European Union, Vladimir Spidla, has made public its concern at the increase of citizens who perceive age discrimination in the context of economic crisis. If in 2008 42% of Europeans detect this discrimination, this percentage has risen 16 points in just one year. And in Spain are even those who see this threat in your environment, up to 61%. Furthermore, given two candidates with equal skills and qualifications age is the criterion that, in the view of Europeans, places one of two at a disadvantage.
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Also troubling is the ignorance that EU citizens have of our rights in a hypothetical case of discrimination or harassment. 54% of the English, a proportion slightly higher than the European average, we would not know what to do in these cases, especially those related to age. While institutional campaigns and media coverage of sex discrimination cases have resulted in an increase in complaints of age discrimination arises only in the courts. And when a worker decides to take his case up there, not usually receive the response it would receive in the United Kingdom or the United States, countries with a long tradition of such complaints. "In Spain, when the courts rule in favor of the employee and declared void, not unfair, dismissal, and may perceive discrimination in employment on grounds of age, the consequence is the readmission. In addition, the worker may claim compensation for moral damage, but in Spain is difficult to achieve in court, "says Paul Palombo, an associate of the working area Cuatrecasas.
In common law countries, however, where they established the so-called 'punitive damages', the situation is another. "In recognition of this damage not only the damage repair staff, they also want to set an example to deter or prevent the recurrence of such cases in the businesses. Compensation in the United States may be millions, hence the company, for fear that the court ordered to pay a million dollars, tends to agree with the worker ", explains Palomeque.
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