IEEE Policies

7.17   Age Discrimination

The IEEE, consistent with the purposes articulated in Article I of the IEEE Constitution, is committed to the realization and maintenance of an employment environment in which engineers may have full and productive careers free of jeopardy from age discrimination practices.

Just as it is IEEE's policy to help and to encourage its members to develop professionally through their own initiative, so it is also IEEE policy to encourage the passage of appropriate legislation, the elimination of discriminatory practices among employers of engineers, the adoption by employers of programs designed to maintain the productivity of engineers in their employ, and to encourage employers to examine their practices to ensure that they are not age discriminatory.

In pursuit of this policy, the IEEE shall use its resources in such ways as are deemed appropriate, including, but not limited to, compiling a list of laws relevant to age discrimination which it would publish and/or furnish to engineers upon request.