• frequent job ads advising "older than 40 need not apply"
  
• to join the National Police one has to be under 30
  
• a 36-year old volunteer firefighter was barred from joining the corps by a 35-year age limit set by the Catalan regional government
  
• a human rights lawyer has challenged in court 15 separate public employment contests covering a total of 30,000 public jobs, on the grounds of age discrimination.

But I am a bit shocked that the article claims there is little social awareness of this problem. I have known this since my early teenage years because of anecdotal evidence from family friends.

For more on age discrimination see the recent discussion of the diary Ok, I am pissed at Europeans by Jeffersonian Democrat on May 16th, 2009.

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous