Research on the regulation of age discrimination in employment encountered by workers during the job-seeking stage

Abstract

As the contrast between supply and demand in China's labor market continues to be tilted toward the buyer, it is not uncommon for workers to suffer discrimination in the process of job hunting, among which age discrimination is the most common, widespread and involved type. In contrast to the frequent occurrence of age discrimination in employment, there are gaps in the existing laws and research on the regulation of age discrimination in employment during the job-seeking stage.Based on this, this paper starts from the phenomenon of age discrimination in employment at the job search stage, analyzes its causes, the nature of the problem, as well as the identification criteria, regulation methods and relief measures of the problem of age discrimination in employment, in order to put forward targeted legal regulation ideas in the context of "age discrimination in employment during the job-seeking stage of workers".