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Practice question: Occupational Qualifications

Multiple Choice Hard

Practice question

An employer invents a purported seniority system after rejecting an older applicant and admits the purpose is to evade age-discrimination law. May it rely on Section 6 merely by adopting that title?
  1. Yes; titles determine all statutory exceptions
  2. No; an evasion device does not satisfy the bona fide seniority-system exception
  3. Yes; any retroactive system is automatically bona fide
  4. Yes; admitted evasion is expressly protected
  5. Yes; all age discrimination becomes seniority

Legal references

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

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