The 30 year maximum age for hiring is there to make sure controllers have enough time working to earn pension benefits before mandatory retirement.
Hiring someone older would be setting them up for a very bad time later in life.
Hiring someone older would be setting them up for a very bad time later in life.
Unless you overhaul the way government workers earn retirement, or we decide that it's safe to employ older air traffic controllers, any other choice would be highly exploitative.
Any federal law enforcement position has this. For example, for the FBI or the secret service, you must enter by 37 and retire by 56.
If they spend 20 years there, and get 20 years worth of pension, what's the problem? They can combine it with whatever savings and pensions they had before being hired at 36.
Unless you're saying they don't get any pension, in which case stop screwing people over that way and cut the pension qualification to 5 years or less.