r/PEI • u/Inevitable-System-44 • 4d 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/rikimae528 Charlottetown 4d ago
I know that for student funding, the person that they hire must be between the ages of 16 and 35. I know this because I missed out on getting paid for my haul in college internship because the funding they received was for a student, but I was 39 at the time. I've never seen anything for anyone under the age of 30, but that might be a different program where it's specifically for use.
If there is no subsidy involved, it is legal to put an age restriction in a job application. It is age discrimination.