How most companies view Equal Opportunities

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-14...

Ouch. I think somebody in HR is going to get a good kicking....

[Pints]

I would love to have been able to do that.

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Me too.

"Applicant must be female, 5ft 9" tall or above, and not hefty. We are an equal Oppurtunities Employer. Please provide photographs"

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Someone had fun by the sounds of it

[Jasandjules]

soad said:

Someone had fun by the sounds of it

HR person leaving?

[Mattt]

Jasandjules said:

HR person leaving?

I'd say it was a draft job brief, that has just been copied and pasted onto the site.

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Get documents with similar comments sent to me, and it's for me to find the 'same old guff' that we need to put into specific pages.

I 'normally' catch them all - but I'm not the one who's supposed to be checking the copy before it's posted.

[cymtriks]

Seriously, why do employers bother to put these statements on job adverts?

It's not as if the reverse is ever going to be declared is it? Can you imagine "We are an unequal opportunities company" or "we actively discriminate against people from backgrounds or with characteristics that we don't like" ?

Does anyone ever take any notice?

It might actually count against an employer, just think of the sort of rights obsessed idiot that might think "Ah.. that's the job for me.." and then think how many able candidates would even notice if the words weren't there if they truly believed that the job, as opposed to the right that go with it, was right for them.

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Slightly off-topic but Christopher Booker had a piece in the Telegraph over the weekend about his local cricket club. They've fallen foul of (I think) HMRC because they state they are "open to all" and not "open to all regardless of age, sex, race, religion, number of thumbs, favourite forest tree blah blah etc.".

[cmsapms]

management bullsh!t type said:

The trust is conscious of its duty to promote equality and is a Stonewall Diversity Champion employer

.....which no doubt consumes a fair old chunk of the trust's budget, that I'm sure we'd all prefer was spent on....

CURING PEOPLE!!!!