The View | End age discrimination in hiring to fix Hong Kong’s talent shortage
- Age is the last bastion of workplace discrimination, and it is not just the government’s job to put it right but that of all employers
- We owe it to the economy to entice older talent back to the workplace, given Hong Kong’s low birth rate and ageing population
They delivered different aircraft multiple times a day in all weather without any modern navigation equipment, including radios. Some of these women lost their lives, including Johnson, who crashed in bad weather.
They earned equal pay to the men but, at the end of the war, they were told to go home, marry and have a family. It was an unbelievable waste of hard-earned experience and talent.
Businesses are never shy about saying they do not have enough talent, but they do little about it. In an excellent presentation last week, Jeremy Lam, of the law firm Deacons, described how a major bank had lost billions through the missteps of top management.
It didn’t seem to occur to the bank’s chiefs to appoint the appropriate people from outside the company, organise a wider range of skills or maintain a training pipeline of candidates. That is why they used to get paid the big bucks.