I would like to share with you a situation that draws my attention, in relation to discrimination in the human resources workforce after 40 years in my country (Dominican Republic), specifically in the private sector, we say in this sector because the public is based on the system of political dispossession, that is to say, that the positions correspond to the people who brought the current ruler to power, predominating cronyism, familiarism and favoritism.
Companies always maintain the belief that human resources represent the most important added value for the success of their operations, that investment in technology and new administrative tools does not matter until the value of human loyalty is rediscovered.
However, it might seem a contradiction that women, in the majority of companies, are not potential candidates for vacant positions after 40 years, and men are not candidates after 45 years, that is, they Dominican women and men end their career development and their productive activity towards work in private companies when they reach these ages, being still in a position to provide maximum benefits to organizations.
In other cases, when they are already working in companies at these ages, they are the first to take into account for any redesign of the organization that involves cutting staff, having to dedicate themselves to being teachers in the event that they have vocation, to be consultants or perhaps dedicate a family business that allows you to obtain the resources for the sustenance of yours.
I believe that in fact hiring staff at these ages has its advantages, some of which are as follows:
• Greater maturity for decision making.
• Greater academic preparation (diploma, post-graduate, master's degree, PHD)
• Greater emotional stability.
• More work experience.
• Greater availability of time to dedicate to the organization.
• Greater stability in the position, due to the stage of their career development in which they are (maturity).
• Less amount of permission requested, in the case of women, since the children are at ages that do not require them constantly as if they were babies.
• Reduced granting of leave to women for maternity.
• Higher reliability index.
• They are in constant training according to the times (technology, administrative tools, other languages), among others.
We are aware that we live in a changing world and that new talent that has just been trained and wants to develop a career must be given the opportunity, but those human resources who are in the aforementioned ages, who have been kept updated In their knowledge according to the current time, open to change, they must be given the same opportunity.
We could think that a Solomonic solution to the situation could be some rule that would complete the labor code of our country (Law 16-92 Dominican Republic) by the lawmakers, however, this would not solve the problem, why who obliges an organization to employ a person it does not want, in this case not because of not having the preparation and work experience for the effective performance of the position, but because of age.
We consider that what should change is the structure of human values, human resources administrators / human management are called to break with this paradigm before senior management and conduct the management of human resources ethically.
