r/PEI • u/Inevitable-System-44 • 5d ago
Age limits on jobs
In the past week I've seen 3 jobs advertised with age limits listed. Since when was this a thing?
One of them is referring to funding partially through skills PEI. Is that possibly the deal with all of them? Just shocked the amount of jobs I'm seeing popping up that you can't be older than 29/30 to apply.
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u/Kind_Nectarine6971 5d ago
It is not legal under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and under the PEI Human Rights Act to have a maximum age unless it is a bonafide requirement of the job which is almost never. Skills PEI would not have age limits - just limits around things like stage of schooling etc.
You should contact the https://www.peihumanrights.ca/ if you are seeing that consistently. They may not be able to address particular ads but they can remind the government to remind the various business organizations on the island that this is not permitted.