A local office supply business routinely hires younger workers for stock staff over older applicants because much of the work requires heavy lifting and good mobility. Which of the following is true in this case?

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Athena Compton

4 January, 16:52

A local office supply business routinely hires younger workers for stock staff over older applicants because much of the work requires heavy lifting and good mobility. Which of the following is true in this case?

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Shawn Cannon · Answer 1

The company needs to show that the job requirements are a business necessity.

Explanation:

A local office who is the business where employees need to lift heavy objects. Such an organisation will have almost most of its employees those are young and have strength to left heavy object and are capable of doing heavy duty jobs.

Such organizations quite frequently hires people who are young and have a good flexibility and mobility. However older applicants are not hired because the job requires lifting heavy objects which the older applicants might not fulfill the need.

This is the business necessity that job requirements are favorable for hiring younger applicants than older applicants, where older applicants are not eligible to the job requirements of the business.

Thus the answer is - --

The company needs to show that the job requirements are a business necessity.