Gertruda and her business partner buy an existing hotel with 75 employees called the Rock Bottom Inn.The hotel is losing money, the employees are all underpaid, and morale is low.Gertruda decides that she will provide health insurance benefits to all employees who have worked for the hotel for at least 10 years as an incentive to her long-term staff to remain with the hotel.She figures that this will also be an incentive to staff who do not yet meet the requirement to remain with the hotel.Melvin, who is 32 years of age and has worked at the hotel dutifully for 6 years files a discrimination complaint claiming that since all of the employees who received the benefit are over the age of 43, that this is age discrimination.He also claims that since all of the recipients are women that this is sex discrimination.Based on the facts presented, what would be the best defense of the hotel?

Group of answer choices

Merit

Seniority

Bona Fide Occupational Qualification

The hotel does not have a good defense for instituting such a policy.