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Are Over-50s Really Choosing to Leave the Workforce Early – or Are They Being Pushed?

by Philip Leith
31 March 2023 9:00 AM

Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England recently complained about early retirees, accusing them of “reducing the productive capacity of the economy” and thereby driving up prices, which, in turn, have to be combatted by interest rate rises. But if my experience is any indication, many over-50s are out of employment not out of choice but because, despite a widely-signalled commitment to ‘diversity’, many employers don’t seem to want to hear from people above a certain age.

I am in my mid-50s and over the past few years I have been unemployed despite earnestly trying to find work the same as, or similar to what I had been doing before in the financial markets. I was fortunate that my wife was working and I had put funds away for a rainy day so I didn’t need to claim any benefits, which may be the same for many people in their 50s.

Recently I checked to see if my National Insurance contributions were up to date and I have to thank Martin Lewis for suggesting I do this as, despite paying in since I started work at the age of 17, there was a shortfall which would have reduced my state pension. Martin pointed out that it would be possible to claim credits even if you were not registered as unemployed as long as you could show you were available for work and had been attempting to find work.

I set about the task of getting all the information together to make my case. By the time I finished I was surprised at just how many different positions I had applied for (or at least those that I had records of).

I had applied for 110 different positions. Eighty-eight (80%) of those applications were rejected without interview despite many of them being an exact job match or only a slight variation but with the same skill set.

One in particular had stuck in my mind. I will not mention its name, just that it was an American banking giant that was looking to fill a London based position that exactly matched my experience. It has the following on its website:

[The company] and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.

Two-and-a-half hours after sending my electronic application I received a message which said: “Thank you for your recent application to the above position. After careful consideration we are sorry to inform you that we will not be progressing with your application.”

Due to the ridiculously short period of time that my application had been evaluated in, I decided to write an actual letter to the head of human resources pointing out how I was surprised to receive an almost immediate rejection email and I didn’t know how the algorithm used to filter potential candidates is configured but in light of my experience, the fact that I was rejected so quickly suggested it was not working properly.

I asked for the opportunity to discuss the role in person but never received a reply.

Maybe I’m just too old.

I have since found employment, but for others perhaps the decision to retire is not through choice but more to do with diversity, equity and inclusion not applying to people in their 50s.

Tags: DiscriminationDiversity and InclusionDiversity TargetsEconomic crisis

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Wednesday Morning Mill Lane & South Hill Road Bracknell  

Vaccine Injured Wayne Snaith
you tube
Wayne gives his own personal account on how he believes the AstraZeneca vaccine caused his disability.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago

Morning Campers 👍 Can anyone shed light on a question I’ve posed before & is constantly bugging me – WHY is HMG , Police , Media & anyone on the Left constantly intent on appeasing Iz Lamb ??

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Possible answers (all of which could apply to some degree and in some cases)
1) Genuine respect (unlikely as same respect often not shown to other beliefs) 2) Fear (some people claiming to represent Islam engage in violence in the name of Islam, more so than other beliefs 3) Part of the “white guilt” virtue signalling disease 4) Part of a plot to destroy our civilisation.

Unfortunately it’s one of many topics on which I find it almost impossible to have a sensible conversation with people on (people who disagree with me that is) – it just descends into name calling.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Its a way of suppressing the white populations?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

I think covered by point 4 – a means to and end rather than an end in itself – divide and rule.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Point 3 has my vote.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

The answer is Point 4.

Point 3 is being used as a means to reach Point 4.

Western civilisation is to be destroyed in order to facilitate a One World Government. Once the West falls the Third Worlders will fall in to line and will have no choice about it anyway.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Thanks for all your reply’s including yours Hux but my next questions is now posed ??? IF Part 4 is the answer WHY would / do TPTB think that the militant iz lam ists will be easier to control / subdue than us ???

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

The islamists at the moment want to be the dominant force from a religious perspective and would like to be in a position where they could impose sharia but much beyond that they are clueless. Muslims could not run a bath and one look at the performance of the Khant in London confirms this. The reality is that they are and always will be third worlders. It might be the case that Muslims will out populate the native population but they will not be able to wrestle power from what will become an entrenched elite class. And there will be an elite class eventually if we lose this war. For the Davos Deviants muslim populations wrecking havoc across Europe are just a means to an end. Politically they are not seen as a threat.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Good synopsis Hux thanks , I’ve said before that western populations since the War have got used to the good life whilst we were needed to work in factory’s etc ! Everything is now outsourced & we are surplus to requirements but our numbers are many so we have to be crushed .

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

It’s called “The Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance”, also called “The Red-Green Alliance”.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

👍

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

For any man who’s a father of a daughter whilst simultaneously defending/being a Tate brothers fan AND railing against the Pakistani rape gangs, that’s some sizeable challenge for your cranium to house such an epic amount of cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy *and* a ( allegedly ) functioning brain. Surely your head would explode with the effort, like an over-inflated balloon! LOL Toxic narcissism at its finest;

”BREAKING: “Andrew and Tristan Tate have been charged with sexual intercourse with a MINOR and trafficking of minors.”

“Today, 21.08.2024, the prosecutors of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism – Central Structure, together with policemen from the Ilfov Organized Crime Service, implemented 4 home search warrants within the Ilfov county and Bucharest municipality, in a criminal case regarding the commission of the crimes of forming an organized criminal group, trafficking in minors, trafficking in persons, sexual intercourse with a minor, influencing statements and money laundering. The hearings are held at the headquarters of DIICOT – Central Structure.

The action benefits from the support of gendarmes from the Special Intervention Brigade of the Gendarmerie. Specialist support was provided by the Technical and Forensic Service within DIICOT – Central Structure and Special Operations Directorate of the Romanian Police.
We make it clear that, during the entire criminal process, the investigated persons benefit from the procedural rights and guarantees provided by the Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as the presumption of innocence”, the authorities say.”

https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1826145902270230824

”Andrew and Tristan Tate are pedophiles, and just had their home raided in a criminal case concerning sexual intercourse with a minor and trafficking of minors.

Andrew Tate admits on video to recruiting 15 year olds for sex and for his pornographic webcam business by DMing them on Instagram.

He’d target 20 per day, per his own admission.

Will Tate promoters like patrickbetdavid and Candace Owens finally denounce these creeps?

What’s the difference between supporting the Tate bros and supporting Jeffrey Epstein?

The answer, of course, is absolutely nothing.”

https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1826230237421543896

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Mogs does this mean you believe all that 🤔

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

The DT has just discovered “Decades of decline have meant the U.K. has fallen rapidly behind in the global nuclear race, jeopardising the country’s energy security in the process”

A couple of decades or three behind the times, DT.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

Someone on the Lockdown Sceptics forum refers to MonkeyPox as MoneyBox.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I tend to refer to monkeypox as moneypox.

See the Paula Jardine article I have linked to.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-making-of-monkeypox-part-two/

Paula Jardine at TCW with Part 2 of her look in to Moneypox and as usual it is all about money.

“If there’s one thing you can be as certain of as death and taxes, it’s that PHEICs are all about introducing new pharmaceuticals. This one is no exception. There is apparently a global shortage of mpox vaccine (no surprise there as smallpox is meant to have been eradicated), which Bavarian Nordic uses chicken eggs to manufacture. Expect to hear imminently that phase 3 testing of mRNA smallpox vaccines, or even emergency deployment, is about to start. A manufactured crisis won’t be allowed to go to waste.”

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

“Pakistani man accused of spreading lies about Southport attack charged”

Again & again we are bombarded with this Globalist Lie perpetuated by Liberal Handwringers Clutching Their Pearls:

” Oh dear me! If only those violent “Far-Right Rioters” had known it was an Ethnic African White-Hating Terrorist who stabbed 13 Ethnic Europeans, trying to murder them all, instead of a Muslim White-Hating Terrorist trying to stab Ethnic Europeans, as they have so often done in the past, everywhere in the West, then they would never have rioted!”

“So that’s why we must crack down on Freedom of Speech, don’t you see?”

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