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Practice question: Occupational Qualifications

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A company admits that it excludes a qualified fifty-year-old employee from technical training solely because of age and invokes no lawful exception. Does the fact that the employee remains employed answer the statutory issue?
  1. Yes; only dismissed workers may invoke the Act
  2. Yes; retaining the job legalizes every training exclusion
  3. Yes; training is not an employment opportunity
  4. No; training discrimination is expressly prohibited
  5. Yes; qualification is immaterial to every workplace policy

Legal references

  • RA 10911, Sections 5-6: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2016/ra_10911_2016.html

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