Practice question
A publisher is paid to run an employment advertisement imposing an arbitrary age preference. No valid exception or other lawful basis is established. It argues that only the hiring employer can be subject to the statute because the publisher hires no applicant. Which is correct?
- Section5(d) separately prohibits the publisher’s stated conduct
- Publishers are invariably immune
- Payment necessarily legalizes every discriminatory advertisement
- The employer’s request repeals Section5(d)
- The applicant must first become the publisher’s employee
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html ArticleXIII Section3.
- RA10911: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2016/ra_10911_2016.html Sections3–6.
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