What effect will the Age Discrimination Regulations have on everyone?

Answer 1

There are some jobs that are naturally age and gender specific. If government tries to write regulations to defy natural and phsiological differences it can create conflicts and problems. For example, women have problems if they try to become a blacksmith. A government agency could step in and demand that a woman be allowed to be a blacksmith but this does nothing but create a problem, not solve it. Until government figures out whom to sue because women do not have the requisite number of sweat glanfds in their chests to cope with the heat of blacksmiting, it will generate anger and antagonism in the name of "sex discrimination". Whose fault is it that women are not made with enough sweat glands in their chests to enable them to be employed as blacksmiths? The idiocy of government over-regulation of things that should not be regulated is apparent to anyone with half a brain.

Age "discrimination" is another area where the same thing happens. An 80-yr old brain surgeon with advanced Parkinsons disease who shakes like a jackhammer should not be allowed to perform operations. Is this age "discrimination"? Yes it is. So is it when 75-yr-old drivers with the reaction time of a snail cannot have their licenses revoked due to "age". The list of stupidity goes on and on. Government over-regulation is the problem, not age or gender.

Answer 2

I fear that it may simply result in employers being afraid to take on middle aged people because they fear (rightly or wrongly) that they'll never be able to get rid of them if in fact they slow down or otherwise become unsuitable. There has always been marked prejudice against anyone over forty and one of the main excuses was always pensions. Will it now be discriminatory for insurance companies on grounds of age within a working environment?

I once had a colleague who pretended to be ten years younger than she was because she had passed the age of sixty and needed the money. When she was eventually rumbled she was dismissed, but thinking of her and her need to keep going, I would like to think that some older people who would otherwise be doomed to a life of poverty and inactivity will be given a chance in the working place. It makes no sense at all to me that so many workers are being brought in from Eastern Europe while our own middle aged people are thrown on the scrap heap.

Answer 3

I'll have to start giving my old fart grandma rides to the proctologist every week because the law says you can't drive past age 70

Answer 4

It is just a way of getting you to work longer before you get a pension.

Answer 5

What do u mean by that?