Is this legal?

zenmaster

Remploy seem to get away with it.

And those Christmas cards painted by people with no limbs.

Your biggest legal difficulty would be proving that they were self employed.

OneYorkshireLass

zenmaster wrote: »

Remploy seem to get away with it.

And those Christmas cards painted by people with no limbs.

Your biggest legal difficulty would be proving that they were self employed.

Hadn't thought of Remploy's activities, thanks. I know they were set up under the 1944 Disabled Persons (Employment) Act but I'm not sure any of that legislation is still current.

If I'm only setting a test to see if they could do the job, and there's no application forms/interviews or contracts then I wouldn't be employing them, I reckon. I'll have to probably talk it over with an employment law specialist ...


*edit* apparently Remploy can do what they do because they are a non-departmental public body - controlled by DWP (typical) ...

gibson123

What a wierdly hijacked thread.

Illegal Immigrants - if an employer does not do correct checks and is found to employing illegal immigrants he can be fine £10,000.

In terms of employing people who have a disability you can attract people with a disabilty by saying in the advert that you are a firm that is positive about disability and you actively encourage applications from people who have a disability.

Why would you want to employ people with a disability, well many are well educated, skilled and motivated, and once in a job where treated well will be loyal and hardworking.

Some people who have a disability have special skills because of their disability see link

http://www.socialventurefund.com/eng/social_enterprises_portfolio/investment_example_auticon/

OneYorkshireLass

So if I 'advertised' (in the loosest sense of the word) on disability forums, but didn't mention disability apart from being positive about disabled people etc, I would probably get away with it? I mean, there's no laws on where you can 'advertise' a job, is there?

gibson123 wrote: »

What a wierdly hijacked thread.

I know. What was that all about?

MissSarah1972

OneYorkshireLass wrote: »

So if I 'advertised' (in the loosest sense of the word) on disability forums, but didn't mention disability apart from being positive about disabled people etc, I would probably get away with it? I mean, there's no laws on where you can 'advertise' a job, is there?



I know. What was that all about?

Well you are obviously going to descriminate against all abled people so I am not sure you will get away with it when pepole turn up for interview and do not get the job because of this.

OneYorkshireLass

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

Well you are obviously going to descriminate against all abled people so I am not sure you will get away with it when pepole turn up for interview and do not get the job because of this.

I'm not interviewing anyone. It's a work-from-home position, there's no 'turning up' involved.

MissSarah1972

OneYorkshireLass wrote: »

I'm not interviewing anyone. It's a work-from-home position, there's no 'turning up' involved.

so how are you going to know they are disabled?

OneYorkshireLass

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

so how are you going to know they are disabled?

By asking clever questions

Or maybe just because of where they had seen the job ...

MissSarah1972

OneYorkshireLass wrote: »

By asking clever questions

Or maybe just because of where they had seen the job ...

like what? I am sure that would be against the law too.

KiKi

OneYorkshireLass wrote: »

So if I 'advertised' (in the loosest sense of the word) on disability forums, but didn't mention disability apart from being positive about disabled people etc, I would probably get away with it? I mean, there's no laws on where you can 'advertise' a job, is there?

Yes you would. But as I said before, you could get away with it anyway by only employing people who declare they have a disability if you don't say that's the reason for employing or not employing someone. I'm sure many employers do that all the time.

Not really a hypothetical question, was it?! Why say that?