Why are many older workers reluctant to discuss age?

The French government has launched a campaign against what it calls “the last discrimination”: ageism.

It’s one that a lot of people in the country consider to be justified, and which makes it about three times more difficult to get a job interview. But it’s costly.

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(Picture: Job-seeker, Geraldine Coquand.)