Originally Posted by
MikeF16
They are not allowed to ask or consider age in hiring determination as that would be age discrimination. My own class had a 57 year old who was not a flow through. While I have zero insight into the hiring department, overall I feel the company is compliant in both the letter and intent of the law. Based on this, I don't think your age will hurt you. Your lack of experience due to your age might be a detractor, but I'm pretty sure there are younger who have been hired.
They are not allowed to discriminate against people over the age of 40 per the Age Discrimination Act in Employment of 1967 (interesting that laws used to be named based on what was actually in the law...I digress). They can discriminate at will against people under the age of 40 though I'm not sure why they would.
