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the Commission determined that age was not a necessary condition for flight attendant job
performance as their duties entailed offering passenger services and ensuring their safety.
Hence, on 31 August, the Commission recommended that XX Airlines come up with remedial
plans to ensure that applicants were not disadvantaged because of their age in the flight attendant
hiring process in Korea.
E. Discrimination based on ideology or political belief
● Discriminatory questioning about political preference during a job interview at a public
In a job interview with XX Institute, the complainant was asked whether he was conservative
qualifications for the job.
An investigation revealed that an interview board member did in fact ask such a question. The
Commission viewed that possibly discriminatory questions should be prohibited regardless of
their intention, as it is very difficult to prove discriminatory intent during an oral interview.
The Commission determined that asking an interview question about political preference is
discrimination based on ideology or political belief. Hence, on 21 September, it recommended
that the director of XX Institute come up with ways to prevent a recurrence and to ensure that
discriminatory questions irrelevant to job performance capability are not asked during the hiring
process.
F. Discrimination for other reasons
● Restrictions placed on school qualification in recruitment of local public officials
The complainant filed a petition that he was ineligible to apply for the local public official
recruitment examination owing to a restrictive eligibility criteria (requiring that both the school
and residence of the applicant be located in the area of jurisdiction of the recruiting entity).
The said examination is designed to hire graduates of specialized vocational high schools and
Meister high schools from the area of jurisdiction.
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or progressive. He filed a complaint that such a question was discriminatory and irrelevant to his
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