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Too good for the job: What a failed discrimination claim tells us about age

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Marthinus van Staden

2d agoen

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A Johannesburg Labour Court ruling confirmed that rejecting a candidate for being “overqualified” is not, by itself, unfair discrimination under South African law. Yet the judgment also highlights a more difficult question left unanswered: When does “overqualified” become a proxy for age discrimination?

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