Advice needed - discrimination in job application?

OlliesDad

daytona0 wrote: »

Wouldn't a person whose roots were from a different country not potentially bring up race and ethnicity?

Just to clarify, the comment was made in reference to the roots of their hair.. you seem to have got the wrong end of the stick.

Honey_Bear

Oooi, your posts are interesting. You asked for advice for a friend, and your posts contain an MSE warning alerting forum contributors to the fact that you are a new user. The Alert asks people to be 'especially nice' to you.

Oooi wrote: »

Some people here really are being less than helpful.

You have been advised that legal discriminations are just that, legal. It's helpful, just not what you wanted to be told.

Oooi wrote: »

If you don't have anything nice to say...

You clearly don't:

Oooi wrote: »

... it's easy to !!!! all over the unemployed just because you think you're the dogs bollox.

If you're all so successful, why are you even on a money saving website? losers.

Not nice. Twice.

Oooi wrote: »

I still believe it is discrimination and all my friends agree.

Then get the law changed if you feel that strongly about it. Until then, the potential employers are free to accept which ever legal recruitment methods they choose.

And please, as a new user who knows enough about this website to start a Forum Thread, remember to be nice to other posters.

Unless, of course, you're a Troll, in which case ....

photome

Oooi wrote: »

This is pointless, how many people want to work in a shop anyway?

it's typical when all the jobs get taken by people who have only come over here to send money out the country and falsely claim benefits. When we have a UKIP government they'll soon put a stop to that.

oh dear.....did wonder from the start if the op is a troll

daytona0

OlliesDad wrote: »

Just to clarify, the comment was made in reference to the roots of their hair.. you seem to have got the wrong end of the stick.

Haha ok fair enough, damn the English language for having multiple meanings for the same word I genuinely didn't think that the person meant hair roots but hey ho there you go lol

keyser666

Oooi wrote: »

I am asking this on behalf of a friend. She is in her 40s and currently looking for a job as she has been out of work for nearly a year. She has a cv and has been round all local shops and businesses to enquire about vacancies and hand out cvs. Although she has not found a job yet, most places take the cv to apply for any vacancy they have, some say they keep them on file and will call if anything comes up.

She had a problem with one particular chain restaurant however. The manager told her he did not accept paper cvs and that she must go to a special website and fill out an online application. My friend is not very internet savvy and is wary of giving personal information over the internet. She also has all the information the company needs on her cv so it seems pointless filling out a form with the same information!

Are they really allowed to do this though is my question? To me it seems as though this discriminates against someone who is not internet savvy, perhaps the company only wants young staff? It also does't seem right that you can be forced to give all your personal details to a company on a website that might not be secure, you also don't know who is going to be able to see your data.

It doesn't seem right to me at all and other friends agree. Does anyone here have any advice?

Perfectly happy to hand her details out to strangers though?

Timalay

Oooi wrote: »

This is pointless, how many people want to work in a shop anyway?

it's typical when all the jobs get taken by people who have only come over here to send money out the country and falsely claim benefits. When we have a UKIP government they'll soon put a stop to that.

Funny that, out a team of 11-12 cleaners at the school I clean at, we have one foreign cleaner.

JustinR1979

Oooi wrote: »

This is pointless, how many people want to work in a shop anyway?

it's typical when all the jobs get taken by people who have only come over here to send money out the country and falsely claim benefits. When we have a UKIP government they'll soon put a stop to that.

Bet they can use a computer though.
And get a job where a native can't.
If people like your friend bucked their ideas up, they'd be in employment, and there would be less roles for the people you're slagging off.
So it's your friend's fault....

tom15387202

DKLS

I was chatting with my father in law over the weekend, for the majority of his career he was a draughtsman at the age of 60 he spotted that the world was changing, so he forked out for a CAD licence and training for CAD and 3D, at 70 his skills are still in demand, and he can demand a very good day rate.

Unfortunately for your friend OP, this is what its all about, skills and being adaptable, if she doesn't adapt she will be on the scrap heap.

anmarj

sounds like my late mum, who decided she wanted an office job, but there could be no computers, and she hated the word processing course that she got sent on, and then moaned about not going out to work, and then told me she was jealous of me because I got on with my life:o