Are they allowed to ask me this in an interview??!

Savvy_Sue

alyth wrote: »

In my existing contract interview, which again is for maternity cover, the two interviewees tied themselves in knots so much trying to ask whether I was either pregnant or had children that in the end I volunteered the information that I neither had nor wanted children, and gained the position because of that I was later told. It's wrong, but it happens.

:rotfl: The other way of doing it is the 'casual chat on the way back to the lifts', which is when I decided to put one HR person out of her misery and explain why I was applying for jobs at a much lower salary than I was currently earning!

And THAT'S more than 25 years ago, even then the 'best' places to work didn't ask discriminatory questions.

LittleVoice

globalds wrote: »

they cannot ask descrimantory questions .So asking if your pregnant is a no no ....They can however ask if you are seeing a doctor or medical profesional because of any ongoing conditions (that would include a midwife)...That question is none descrimanatory.

It would need to be asked of men as well as women too if it were not to be discriminatory on the grounds of sex. However, it could be seen as discrimination on the grounds of disability!