Discrimination in Broken Britain

SLUSK

An employer has been told that she cannot advertise for reliable people because that is discriminating against unreliable people. I mean come on, this is not even a joke. No wonder why Britain is broken.

Apparently it is also discriminatory to ask that employees should be able to speak English.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246201/Employer-told-advertise-reliable-workers--discriminates-unreliable-applicants.html

jimmycrackcorm

Polish staff are really hard working so problem solved. Just advertise in Polish.

Red_Marauder

SLUSK wrote: »

An employer has been told that she cannot advertise for reliable people because that is discriminating against unreliable people. I mean come on, this is not even a joke.

No because it seems to be entirely untrue. This is the Daily Mail, after all. It looks like the job centre woman just got it wrong, if you read the entire article...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission added: 'This is in no way in breach of any discrimination law.

'Mrs Mamo should consider very unreliable any advice that she may have received implying that this aspect of her advert was discriminatory.'
Yesterday the Department for Work and Pensions said it could not comment on the conversation Mrs Mamo had with the member of staff at Thetford.
However, a spokesman insisted her original advert had run on the Jobcentre Plus website and on computer terminals in branches.

She added: 'Reliability is important to employers and we welcome ads seeking reliable applicants.'

There seems to be no story here

SLUSK

Red_Marauder wrote: »

No because it seems to be entirely untrue. This is the Daily Mail, after all. It looks like the job centre woman just got it wrong, if you read the entire article...


There seems to be no story here

Are you saying the woman lied about this beeing the policy at this job centre?

Red_Marauder

Isn't it clear? Read the article.

The jobcentre employee appears to have gotten the story wrong; she shouldn't have said they couldn't take ads calling for reliable applicants.

mike65

Typical Fail, not even a political story really is it?

sceptre

Nothing to do with Politics. And neither the person in the story nor the person who wrote the story seem to be all that good at their native language either, or at least at reading it based on central point that they missed, accidentally or deliberately.

Badly researched stories like this are the main reason the Daily Mail has the reputation it does. But either way it's not worth a discussion.

Locked, this wasn't the forum for it in the first place.