Age Discrimination

On Sunday 1 October 2006 the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations came into force. Discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of age is now unlawful.

Supreme Education do not and have never discriminated against candidates because of their age.

Why then do we ask for your date of birth on our registration form?

Data protection is a very sensitive issue and one which we take very seriously. We put a number of safe guards in to ensure that the information supplied to us from our registration forms is held in confidence. One of the key pieces of information for correctly identifying a person who logs into our website is their date of birth. A persons date of birth is one piece of information that doesn't change. You may change your email address, telephone number, postal address, even your name but you will never change your date of birth. This is the only reason we ask for your date of birth.

The same question was asked of the REC. This is what they answered.

Q. Can we still ask for a candidate's Date of Birth on our application form?

A. Asking for a date of birth on your application form is not age discrimination. The problem is that if there is no objective justification for asking for this information then an unsuccessful candidate may infer that this information was used to discriminate against them. In our view the need to ask for date of birth for payroll records or even to identify candidates with the same or similar names on your database would be justification for asking such information.

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