WORLD Policy Analysis Center

Are employers required to take steps to prevent workplace discrimination on the basis of age?

The term “age” includes broad references to ‘age’ and specific protections for minors, the elderly, or individuals above a certain age. For the purposes of this variable, the term “age” captures all of these definitions.

No prohibition of workplace discrimination based on age indicates that legislation does not specifically prohibit age-based workplace discrimination broadly, nor specifically against discrimination in hiring, promotions and/or demotions, training, pay, nor terminations. This does not mean that legislation denies this guarantee.

No explicit requirements means that legislation does explicitly prohibit at least one of these forms of age-based workplace discrimination, but it does not at the same time pair this prohibition with an explicit requirement that employers actively prevent it.

General requirement, but no specific measures means that employers are generally required to prevent age-based workplace discrimination, but there are no specific descriptions of the form that this prevention should take.

Employers required to take one or more measures means that employers are explicitly required to take at least one concrete preventive action against age-based workplace discrimination, such as, for example, providing training to employees, developing a code of conduct, or raising awareness of existing legislation.

Countries

Angola - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Bahrain - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Bangladesh - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Bhutan - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Botswana - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Brunei - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Cabo Verde - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

China - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Comoros - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Dominica - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Egypt - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Equatorial Guinea - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Eritrea - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Ethiopia - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

The Gambia - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Ghana - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Greenland - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Guatemala - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Haiti - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

India - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Indonesia - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Jamaica - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Jordan - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Kenya - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Kuwait - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Laos - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Lebanon - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Lesotho - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Libya - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Liechtenstein - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Malawi - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Malaysia - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Marshall Islands - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Micronesia, Federated States of - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Monaco - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Morocco - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Myanmar - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Namibia - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Nauru - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Nepal - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Nicaragua - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Nigeria - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Oman - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Pakistan - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Palau - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Panama - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Papua New Guinea - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Qatar - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Rwanda - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Samoa - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

San Marino - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Solomon Islands - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Sri Lanka - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

St. Kitts and Nevis - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

St. Vincent and the Grenadines - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Sudan - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Switzerland - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Syria - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Thailand - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Tonga - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Trinidad and Tobago - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Tunisia - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Uganda - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

United Arab Emirates - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Uruguay - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Vanuatu - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Zimbabwe - No explicit prohibition of age discrimination at work

Algeria - No explicit requirements

Andorra - No explicit requirements

Antigua and Barbuda - No explicit requirements

Argentina - No explicit requirements

Armenia - No explicit requirements

Australia - No explicit requirements

Austria - No explicit requirements

Azerbaijan - No explicit requirements

Bahamas - No explicit requirements

Belarus - No explicit requirements

Belize - No explicit requirements

Benin - No explicit requirements

Bolivia - No explicit requirements

Bosnia and Herzegovina - No explicit requirements

Brazil - No explicit requirements

Burkina Faso - No explicit requirements

Burundi - No explicit requirements

Cameroon - No explicit requirements

Canada - No explicit requirements

Central African Republic - No explicit requirements

Chad - No explicit requirements

Chile - No explicit requirements

Democratic Republic of the Congo - No explicit requirements

Republic of the Congo - No explicit requirements

Costa Rica - No explicit requirements

Croatia - No explicit requirements

Cuba - No explicit requirements

Cyprus - No explicit requirements

Denmark - No explicit requirements

Djibouti - No explicit requirements

Dominican Republic - No explicit requirements

El Salvador - No explicit requirements

Fiji - No explicit requirements

Gabon - No explicit requirements

Grenada - No explicit requirements

Guinea - No explicit requirements

Guinea-Bissau - No explicit requirements

Guyana - No explicit requirements

Honduras - No explicit requirements

Hungary - No explicit requirements

Iran - No explicit requirements

Ireland - No explicit requirements

Israel - No explicit requirements

Italy - No explicit requirements

Japan - No explicit requirements

Kazakhstan - No explicit requirements

Kiribati - No explicit requirements

Democratic People's Republic of Korea - No explicit requirements

Kyrgyzstan - No explicit requirements

Latvia - No explicit requirements

Liberia - No explicit requirements

Luxembourg - No explicit requirements

North Macedonia - No explicit requirements

Madagascar - No explicit requirements

Maldives - No explicit requirements

Mali - No explicit requirements

Mauritania - No explicit requirements

Mexico - No explicit requirements

Montenegro - No explicit requirements

Mozambique - No explicit requirements

The Netherlands - No explicit requirements

New Zealand - No explicit requirements

Niger - No explicit requirements

Paraguay - No explicit requirements

The Philippines - No explicit requirements

Portugal - No explicit requirements

Russian Federation - No explicit requirements

Sao Tome and Principe - No explicit requirements

Saudi Arabia - No explicit requirements

Senegal - No explicit requirements

Serbia - No explicit requirements

Seychelles - No explicit requirements

Sierra Leone - No explicit requirements

Singapore - No explicit requirements

Somalia - No explicit requirements

South Sudan - No explicit requirements

Spain - No explicit requirements

St. Lucia - No explicit requirements

Suriname - No explicit requirements

Eswatini - No explicit requirements

Tajikistan - No explicit requirements

Timor-Leste - No explicit requirements

Türkiye - No explicit requirements

Turkmenistan - No explicit requirements

Tuvalu - No explicit requirements

Ukraine - No explicit requirements

United Kingdom - No explicit requirements

United States of America - No explicit requirements

Venezuela - No explicit requirements

Yemen - No explicit requirements

Czech Republic - General requirement, but no specific measures

Iceland - General requirement, but no specific measures

Iraq - General requirement, but no specific measures

Republic of Korea - General requirement, but no specific measures

Peru - General requirement, but no specific measures

Slovakia - General requirement, but no specific measures

Togo - General requirement, but no specific measures

Albania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Barbados - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Belgium - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Bulgaria - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Cambodia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Colombia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Cote d'Ivoire - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Ecuador - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Estonia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Finland - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

France - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Georgia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Germany - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Greece - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Lithuania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Malta - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Mauritius - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Moldova - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Mongolia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Norway - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Poland - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Romania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Slovenia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

South Africa - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Sweden - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Tanzania - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Uzbekistan - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Vietnam - Employers required to take one or more specific measures

Zambia - Employers required to take one or more specific measures