
From January 2025 to September 2026, the Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices received 166 complaints about age discrimination in job advertisements and hiring practices, referring 162 to the Ministry of Manpower. MOM took enforcement action in 122 cases, including suspending employers’ access to foreign workers and directing them to fix HR lapses, and said age discrimination remains one of the more common issues jobseekers face ahead of the Workplace Fairness Act in end-2027.