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From: mike@cadsys.UUCP (Michael Bruck)
Newsgroups: net.jobs
Subject: Age discrimination
Message-ID: <155@cadsys.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 01:39:21 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 01:39:21 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 04:32:14 EDT
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Reply-To: mike@cadsys.UUCP (Michael Bruck)
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The age requirement in a recent posting for job openings in the UK
is quite normal for the UK and most of Europe.  It is not uncommon 
to have age as a guideline for salaries, in particular with large
beaurocratic government connected employers such as universities
which have very specific salary tables where age is one criterion.

After graduating from a British university two years ago, I came across
several hiring requirements that would be frowned upon (if not 
downright illegal) here in the US, but which are normal hiring
practices in the UK.  Just the basic difference between a resume (terse)
versus a typical British CV (an autobiography) gives an indication of this.

As it happens, the job posted on the net was being offered in the UK, 
so their local hiring practices will prevail.

As you can tell, I am now working in the US.  It saddens me that in 
addition to the miserably low salaries paid in the UK, that such
archaic hiring practices are still in existence in England.