Thorny Issue No1

[kwatt]

Sorry folks I’ve had internet “issues” this weekend but here’s one that’s been winding me up this weekend…

The other day I was informed that there was to be legislation passed that was dubbed as being “positive discrimination”. That is to say that should you have two candidates for a position and both are equal you would be legally obliged to employ one from an ethnic minority. Which is the PC way of saying a non-caucasian person. I mean really, is that really required as I don’t think many employers give a stuff these days really. But you may well be asked to justify your choice of candidate if this should happen to you.

But anyhow, as ridiculous as that may or may not be it is really placed nicely by the fact that have of Kilmarnock and, I’m sure other towns, were more or less shut down on Saturday due to the Orange Walks.

So, open sectarianism is okay, racialism is not?

Mixed messages or what?

What’s worse, racism or religious hatred? Don’t bother answering, it’s rhetorical, one’s as loathsome as the other.

It really is ludicrous and the reason that this post is here is not only to point out the absurdity of all this but that many of us as employers have to allow both an “expression of religious rights”, even if that’s marching up the street banging a big drum to wind up other religious faiths and also to not allow racism into the workplace.

So government and the legal system can’t get it right but we’re expected to without falling foul of any rules?!

Fun being an employer isn’t it?

K.

[Alex]

Re: Thorny Issue No1

Now turn this on its head.

You as an employer are faced with 3 shortlisted interviewees, 2 of which are of ethnic background. You pick the best candidate no matter what colour, race or creed and he happens not to be the blue eyed blonde haired one. He can then cite racial discrimination now as well, pointing out that in his opinion your preference was influenced by the rules and criteria involved regards your choice in the successful ethnic candidate.

One of the best engineers I met at a training course was Afro Caribbean, cracking engineer. However that does not count when it comes to employing staff. Fortunately skills are the main criteria in our case.

Alex

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Re: Thorny Issue No1

Hi, several years ago i applied to join the police, i had a very nice letter back saying how impressed with my application they were, however there were no positions available for me to apply for at the time, (even though a recruitment drive was on), and advised me to try a different areas force, i spoke to a friend who is well placed, who spoke to someone else, the ‘unnoficial, of course’ reason my application went no further was that too many of my ‘type’ had applied and i did not fit the ‘crteria’ that the current recruitment drive was trying to aim at!!!!

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