As the director of Devonwood Recruitment, Nicole Mamo deals a lot with Jobcentre Plus. They’re the British version of the unemployment office mixed with a headhunting service. Basically, you show up, file for unemployment or benefits, and look for a job at the same time. However, when her ad asked for a reliable person to fill a hospital janitor position, she apparently crossed a line. Asking for a reliable employee is apparently discriminatory. They also told her she couldn’t ask for someone who spoke English in her ad, but she won that battle after pointing out the job required dealing with a lot of hazardous materials with lots of warning labels.
Jobcentre Plus is hurriedly backing away from what they said before, saying it was an overabundance of caution on their employee’s part due to people’s overly litigious nature. Still, I have no doubts that she was told her ad was discriminatory on both counts, even if it’s necessary discrimination against the unsafe and lazy.
I’d say more, but I might get in trouble for discriminating against the stupid.
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