RA 10911

PICTURE:
Before :
Companies would
usually prefer
applicants within a
certain age limit.
PROBLEMS:
Citizens will have limited opportunities regarding employment and promotion

Fresh graduates will have a difficult time looking for jobs to practice their profession

Companies will be less diversified

Limitations regarding stable employment

OFW’s forced to work abroad instead of working in the Philippines

SOLUTION:

RA 10911
The Anti Age Discrimination
in Employment Act
WHAT IS RA 10911?

Aims to support and endorse equality

in the workplace by requiring
companies to hire workers solely based
on their competence wherein age
should not be a basis for employment.
WHO ARE COVERED?

All employers, labor contractors or

subcontractors, labor organizations and
publishers
PROHIBITED ACTS:
EMPLOYER:
 Print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, in any form of media,
including the internet, any notice of advertisement relating to employment
suggesting preferences, limitations, specifications, and discrimination based on
age
 Require the declaration of age or birth date during the application process;
 Decline any employment application because of the individual’s age
 Discriminate against an individual in terms of compensation, terms and
conditions or privileges of employment on account of such individual’s age
 Deny any employee’s or worker’s promotion or opportunity for training
because of age
 Forcibly lay off an employee or worker because of old age
 Impose early retirement on the basis of such employee’s or worker’s age
LABOR CONTRACTOR/ SUBCONTRACTOR:
 Refuse to refer for employment or otherwise discriminate
against any individual because of such person’s age
LABOR ORGANIZATION:
 Deny membership to any individual because of such
individual’s age
 Exclude from its membership any individual because of
such individual’s age
 Cause or attempt to cause an employer to discriminate
against an individual
PUBLISHER:
 Print or publish any notice of advertisement relating to
employment suggesting preferences, limitations,
specifications, and discrimination based on age.
EXCEPTIONS:
 Age is a bona fide occupational qualification

 Bona fide seniority system

 Bona fide employee retirement or a voluntary

early retirement plan
PENALTIES:
At the discretion of the court:

- Fine of P50,000.00 but not more than P500,000.00

- Imprisonment of not less than 3 months but not more than 2 years

- If the offense is committed by a corporation, trust, firm,

partnership or association or other entity, the penalty shall be
imposed upon the guilty officer or officers of such corporation,
trust, firm, partnership or association or entity
AGENCY:
FACTS ABOUT RA 10911
 RA 10911 became a law after Malacañang missed the deadline to act on its bill’s
passage within 30 days of receipt on July 21, 2016.

 The IRR of RA 10911 was signed by Sec. Silvestre Bello III on Feb 2, 2017. It took
effect 15 days after it’s publication in a newspaper of general circulation.