[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1625.4]

[Page 324-325]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
          CHAPTER XIV--EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION
 
PART 1625_AGE DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ACT--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart A_Interpretations
 
Sec. 1625.4  Help wanted notices or advertisements.

    (a) Help wanted notices or advertisements may not contain terms and 
phrases that limit or deter the employment of older individuals. Notices 
or advertisements that contain terms such as age 25 to 35, young, 
college student, recent college graduate, boy, girl, or others of a 
similar nature violate the Act unless one of the statutory exceptions 
applies. Employers may post help wanted notices or advertisements 
expressing a preference for older individuals with terms such as over 
age 60, retirees, or supplement your pension.
    (b) Help wanted notices or advertisements that ask applicants to 
disclose

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or state their age do not, in themselves, violate the Act. But because 
asking applicants to state their age may tend to deter older individuals 
from applying, or otherwise indicate discrimination against older 
individuals, employment notices or advertisements that include such 
requests will be closely scrutinized to assure that the requests were 
made for a lawful purpose.

[72 FR 36875, July 6, 2007]