Legally entitled to Advertise a job??

mannimostly

Hi, was just wondering if anyone knew if a company has to advertise a job externally or can they just hire from within without advertising at all?
A friend of mine works for a company and told me someone was leaving and i was interested in applying for the job. Unfortunately, i have just found out that the job has been given to another employee and as far as i am aware the job wasn't even advertised internally, just offered to someone. Is that legal??
Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, i did look but couldn't find anything!!

elsien

Not sure about internal procedures, but I'm fairly sure they don't have to advertise externally if they don't want to. My company sometimes just does internal vacancies and they're quite strict about keeping to the legalities.

zzzLazyDaisy

Yes, it is legal.

Apart from anything else many companies are not hiring at the moment due to the recession - instead they prefer to reduce staff through 'natural wastage' ie by not replacing a member of staff when they leave, but by absorbing that person's tasks into the roles of existing employees and/or moving around the existing workforce.

It is a business decision that the company is entitled to make.

Emmzi

by law a company could employ only mates of the boss. no need to advertise anything ever.

kingfisherblue

A small number of jobs have to be advertised by law (for example, a headteacher). The remainder, as others have stated, do not need to be advertised at all. It is legal and can save considerable costs to a firm if there is a suitable person, already working for the company, for the position.

PlutoinCapricorn

Some companies may have a policy about this, others may not. s Some only advertise if no-one internal is interested in a vacancy.

Most companies will be aware that advertising will bring in a good selection of applicants, some of whom may be better candidates than existing employees.

However, for some positions, it is easiest and cheapest if the company already has someone they know and trust who could take on the role and do the work well.

Pete111

Seriously?

Could sort of understand your argument if you were working for a company that didn't internally advertise a role you were interested in but I'm afraid they have absolutely no requirement whatsoever to advertise roles externally.

In many ways the fact they have given the role to someone already there is admirable as the company is allowing it's staff to grow their careers. Many companies I have worked for used to only advertise externally after an internal search/selection failed.

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mannimostly

Ok. Thanks for all the replies.:T

Proc

Okay, so let's say that it was illegal to not advertise the job externally, what would you want done about it?