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What questions can't you ask during an interview?
Consumer watchdog Which? has warned that there is still confusion over what employers can and cannot ask during the recruitment process.What were once standard questions on an application form or during an interview – such as age, length of experience, and religious views – are now illegal under discrimination legislation, and employers found to be asking these questio...
News | 14 Jan 2008
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What questions can't you ask during an interview?
I recall being interviewed for an administrative post promotion at Greenwich Council Housing Department. I was called in by my surname. I was asked what is the calorific value of coal? I explained that coal would need to be subjected to full anyalysis to ascertain it's calorific value. The next man was called " Hello, Barry. How nice to see you. How are you?" Guess who got the job. That was the last time I was interviewed there for promotion....
Comment | 23 Jan 2008
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What questions can't you ask during an interview?
I was asked in an interview in 2002, are you married and do you have children? I was being interviewed by a panel of 7 barristers (6 male, 1 female, all white). I was also asked what I thought of another Barristers Chambers that I had been at. I asked whether these were really questions I should be answering. The response : we've never had that reply in 15 years. My interview was unsucessful.
Comment | 15 Jan 2008
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What questions can't you ask during an interview?
Way back in 1985 I remember being interviewed for a role in an american company and being asked: 'Are you thinking about getting married and do you intend to start a family'? I have to say my response even then was: 'If I was a man would you be asking me this question?' My approach didn't do me
Comment | 15 Jan 2008
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What questions can't you ask during an interview?
Does this apply when applying for an elivated position in a "catholic" school in Scotland?
Comment | 22 Jan 2008
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Questions remain as the Government publishes consultation paper on equality for agency workers
...ion paper proposes a comparison with `a comparable worker doing broadly similar work in the same organisation'. Readers familiar with the Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 will recognise a similar definition of comparator employed in those Regulations. What rights will be extended to agency workers? The Directive sets minimum requirements and refers to `basic working and employment conditions', specifically those relating to working time, holidays and pay. Although `pay' is undefined, the consultation paper reveals a broader interpretation is to be ap...
News analysis | 12 May 2009
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Rejected applicants can ask to see interview notes
...an assessor, I can tell you that they are talking generalist rubbish. Tests, if properly put together and not just bought off the shelf, can be tailored to a clients needs rather like a contract made up of a selection of standard paragraphs - pick and mix! They should be able to tell you exactly what elements that they were looking for, what the expected outcomes would be for an ideal candidate, and how you rated against that criteria. The reply you got was generalist and appears to have been given by someone who has read a Readers Digest article on psychometric testing. These tests I feel ...
Comment | 28 Jan 2009
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£20 if you can prove you’re competent
...professions and pieces of legislations, our respondents did indeed find that it was difficult to prove successfully and convincingly that they were competent. We have used some of the more persuasive responses received to illustrate the point in the first of our features this month, which discusses what factors can be considered to make someone competent. When it comes down to it, however, as Mark Tyler of law firm CMS Cameron McKenna points out, "You can never really be assured that someone will act competently based on their past learning and behaviour. As a doctor, for example, you can go throu...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2006
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HSBC asks what the world wants from retirement
...is no need for ever-higher incomes if costs of products and services are affordably low and the pot of money they chase for their share remains stable; competition does the business. No sales because of no available money in a person's budget means makers and providers will meet real needs and what they can afford. . . they will have to hold prices down or go out of business through lack of sales. They do not want to go out of business! Cheap imports to achieve low prices is not the answer as local jobs are threatened or lost, your ability to earn savings threatened, and your future pensi...
Comment | 7 May 2006
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Businesses’ environmental claims questioned
...ility reports remains appalling at times, even today. In financial reporting leaving out an undisclosed part of the company in the calculation of profits would be a scandal. In sustainability reporting it is common practice. How can stakeholders assess or compare performance without exactly knowing what the data actually covers?" A forthcoming study coming out of the university's Sustainability Research Institute will show that out of 443 European Union companies featuring in the FTSE All World Index between 2005 and 2009, fewer than one in six reported greenhouse gas emissions that covered all...
News | 7 Dec 2011
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Strings attached: What are conditional resignations?
© Workplace Law Group 2010 All rights reserved Strings attached: What are conditional resignations? Strings attached: What are conditional resignations? "What do you mean you want to Conditionally Resign?" asked Homer Simpson incredulously. "Dooooarh, you quit today and you are history man". Now, ignoring the fictional nature of the above scene from a Simpsons episo...
News analysis | 26 Aug 2010
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Redundancy payments can be capped in line with retirement
...han they would have earned if they had remained in employment until retirement age. In Kraft Foods v Hastie, an employee alleged that the operation of the contractual redundancy payment scheme discriminated unfairly against him in imposing a cap so that the maximum amount payable should not exceed what he would have earned, at his current rate of pay, if he had remained in employment until normal retirement age of 65. When Mr. Hastie was made redundant 2¼ years before his 65th birthday his potential earnings through to retirement were £76,560. However, the formula under the contractual redun...
Case | 9 Jul 2010
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Legality of Agency Workers Directive questioned
...derable ramifications.” The ARC has recently raised this with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and has asked for the relevant Regulations 3(3) and (4) to be removed but says BIS has currently declined to do so, arguing that this aspect of the regulations did not go beyond what the Directive aimed to achieve in protecting agency workers, particularly as it applied in the UK context. It has argued that to exclude certain organisations from liability would be to deny agency workers access to rights that the Directive required. However ARC argues that the issue is an entire...
News | 9 Mar 2010
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Redundancy – what you need to know
© Workplace Law Group 2010 All rights reserved Redundancy: what you need to know Redundancy: what you need to know During this difficult economic climate, it is inevitable that a number of employers have to undergo a re-structure of the business to ensure its financial viability. Such re-structure may involve making cost savings in the form of redundancies. It...
News analysis | 5 Jan 2010
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Anger at work can be a good thing, research suggests
...gement and I don't work in construction but how can I deny another manager that option if it works? Q. Who are the biggest earners in the country? A. Footballers. Q. And who are one of the most successful teams in the world (loathe though i am to say it)? A. Manchester United. And finally what kind of a reputation has sir Alex Ferguson as a manager? Yes he shouts a hell of a lot, but in his arena it works. Michelle, you clearly have an issue with being working class and being working class myself I take real personal offence at your comments: "Stuck up, class-conscious, aspiring mid...
Comment | 7 Sep 2011
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Anger at work can be a good thing, research suggests
Michelle, Who - other than you - said anything about "shouting"? - and why specifically single out Architects - they are only doing a job - no more, no less than the rest of us. I can't do what they do - and they can't do what I do. There is no "social" hierarchy in this - forget about the 2 Ronnies and John Cleese sketch. To answer your question - Architects certainly do get told they have it wrong when necessary - In H&S terms this happens more frequently than it should when they ma...
Comment | 7 Sep 2011
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Using agency workers during strikes – cans and can'ts
...an be put in place if a Union calls industrial action. Some will consider hiring agency workers, while others will look to recruit employees on a temporary contract. Employers should be aware of the differences in the law relating to employees and Agency Workers as these could have an affect on what strategy they choose to pursue. The law relating to the recruitment of Agency Workers was only introduced in 2004 and is untested. The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 ('the Regulations') came into force on 6 April 2004. There is no helpful case law to...
News | 21 Oct 2009
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‘Piggyback’ claims can bring home the bacon
...es who bring equal pay claims. That predominantly female group will compare themselves to other workers who are predominantly men who are paid more. This may apply where there are a few men in roles such as domestics, catering staff, and carers. These mainly female groups have argued / claimed that what they do is of equal value to predominantly male roles such as refuse collectors and estates workers, who have been paid more. A previously unanswered question is whether those men in the mainly female groups can bring equal pay claims and recover awards. It can seem a little nonsensical that they ...
News | 26 Jun 2009
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Can the breach of company’s Policy and Procedure amount to unfair and /or wrongful dismissal
...acked with warnings leading to eventual dismissal. In my view gross misconduct relates to monetery loss, physical violence, act putting company reputation at stack, theft, serious breaches of the law taken place. Alas, put your emotions and irregularity aside and check, as said by others above, what was the reason of dismissal and how can you counteract it with hard evidence. Anoop
Comment | 23 Feb 2011
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Can the breach of company’s Policy and Procedure amount to unfair and /or wrongful dismissal
I am not sure whose case this is, Anoop's or Alas's, but 'Friendly' is right to suggest a visit to a law centre (or, I suggest, a call to ACAS) because the issues could be far more complex than is presently apparent. For example, what was the nature of the alleged discrimination ? How did the alleged discrimination form a part of the dismissal process. What was the exact nature of the alleged gross misconduct ? One cannot rely solely upon lists of misconduct in staff handbooks, because they are often just quoted as examples,...
Comment | 23 Feb 2011
