Job Selection Ciriteria

[finnie]

Was having a conversation at work today, thought I would put the jist out in PH world.

How far will political correctness and or discrimination prevention go in the job selection process?

At the moment certain criteria are thought of as discriminatory: Gender, age, physical size. In some cases these must surely matter. Being careful I am not going to mention any exceptions yet.

How far will it go? I am sure there will be examples where someone has been hired because of their gender. Two people applying for a job, one male, one female. One is deemed more suitable for the position but the other is chosen because said company already has a deemed bias towards the opposite gender!

Will it reach the point where you cannot NOT employ someone because they dont have a qualification. ie you should provide them with training. Employ a person to be a teacher when they dont have the qualification because not choosing them is deemed as discrimination

[finnie]

craigjm said:

Your post sounds like the start of a beef that someone got a job over you / someone you know because they were black / disabled / a woman etc to try to balance an organisation. There are laws against positive discrimination (employing a woman say just because you don't have any in your company) but there are no laws against positive action (making it easier for someone to get a job in your company when they have certain characteristics - two tick guaranteed interview scheme for disabled people is one such scheme)

For once on pistonheads it wasn't. I just see that PC ness in the UK is going nuts. How can a person honestly be offended by the board at the front of a class be called a blackboard!

Snooker to be banned next as it is obviously a white supremacy game!