I am writing this letter in response to your job
advertisement. I came across your advertisement whilst looking for a job and
was interested in your current job offer, however as i read though it i noticed
that there were some unethical and lawfully incorrect points in your
advertisement and am writing to you to make you aware of these in-corrections.
The first thing I noticed was some of the statements said in the job
description at the top with your hours and salary being vague and not really
explaining the reason for the salary boundary to be so wide apart. The reason i
bring this up is that it has a boundary of £15,000 to £35,000 per annum which
only adds to the confusion when the hours are also not specific with the hours
being from 10-45 without explaining why they are so far apart. To correct this,
you must specify the hours and salary as potential applicants may want to know
what they are signing up for.
The next statement i noticed was that you specified that you
are looking for male and female however using this set of words will leave out
transgender people for example and could be counted as discrimination even if
that wasn't your intention and may be perfectly find with transgender
applicants. This could be corrected by not even including a gender section in
the advertisement as a gender description is only needed in specific job roles
that are only considered to be for men or female and are becoming fewer and
fewer, this means that there is no need for your job to specify what genders
are compatible. Specifying gender is not essential and could possible put off applications
who don't like to be judge by their gender.
Another statement that you have included is that you would
like applicants to age below 30 which is unethical and also against the law to
include as the law states that you cannot discriminate people on the age,
sexuality, gender, race or disability, which means that you are not allowed to
specially ask for a certain age unless you have a certain task that old
employees will not be able to carry out. In your job advertisement you don't
have any tasks that the older audience cannot do so you should not be looking
for a specific age. To add on to this is the fact that you want your applicants
to uphold Christian beliefs and are unable to apply if they don't is ridiculous
requirement as you are losing a large amount of applicants who may be better
for the job. I understand that you are a Christian organisation however
religion doesn't have anything to do with the job and as it has no relevance to
the job you would be discriminating all other religions. In mind of the above
complaints I have bought up, i would like to remind you that there is ''The
equality act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the work place
and wider society'' Which is the legislation that protects people from being discriminated.
This piece of legislation is the only current act against discrimination and
gets rid of all the previous laws to make the laws easier to understand and is
to identify what counts as discrimination and what is illegal. There is also
''The equal opportunities legislation'' which expanded on some of the laws in
the other legislation and focused on equality in the workplace and states that
discrimination against age, disability, marriage and civil partnership, gender,
pregnancy and maternity, race and religion is prohibited. Also to protect
against discrimination is trade unions which protect the rights of employees of
a certain trade and can stop discrimination in the workplace if you report it.
As you are an employer you should be giving codes of
practice and policies to follow as an applicant is not a part of your company
and will not be protected and could cause issues if something goes wrong. You
have asked your applicants to include school children in their video, this
means that everyone you want them to feature is 16 or under 16 is a problem as
the they can’t legally give your applicants permission to film them as they are
under the age of consent to be filmed. There is also an issue of you asking
your applicants to ask young victims about the traumatic events they have been
though, not only is this unethical its inappropriate and would be unfair to
bring all of the feeling back to young victims. Getting them to re-enact this
would be disturbing and an awful thing to ask children to do. For these reasons
you should remove this as a requirement for your applicants. Furthermore, there
is an issue with you automatically pinning males as offenders as it is not just
male who are offenders and not just females who are victims as many males also
are victims. This is morally incorrect and should be re-worded to stop it from
sounding stereotypical and bias.
Continuing on from my latest point you have must actually
consider the current laws from Ofcom which are laws that where put in place to
protect under 18's. Ofcom was created because of the communication act that was
passed in 2003 as well of the broadcasting act that was passed in 1990. Ofcom
are in charge of regulating Television by creating rules for broadcasters to
follow. Your advertisement has a brief telling applicants to make a video to
get your job however if an applicant followed your brief would be break some of
Ofcom's rules which could have huge implications. The rule you want you
applicants to broke are as follows 'where statutory or other legal restrictions
apply preventing personal identification, broadcasters should also be
particularly careful not to provide clues which may lead to the identification
of those who are not yet adult and who are, or might be, involved as a victim'.
This is an issue as you specifically tell your applicants to 'Interview
teenagers and other individuals who may have been affected by this topic'. Your
applicants would be breaking this as you want them to talk teens who are
generally under 18 and would not be an adult and are discussing them being a
victim which is not allowed. Another rule that is broken is the rule of
'Material that might seriously impair the physical, mental or moral development
of people under eighteen must not be broadcast'. You have broken this as you
ask your applicants to 'Produce a short documentary that can be shown to
children' that would be showing under age teenagers material that would most
likely impair their mental or moral development.
This also is a violation against the obscene publications
act which was passed in 1959 and then was re-done in 1964. This is a violation
as it states that 'it is an offence to publish any content whose effect may
deprave and corrupt those who see it. There is also the BBFC which protects
children and adults from harmful content by using certifications to regulate
content. This would mean that your applicants videos would need to have an
adult rating as the discussion about rape and the re-enactments would not be
appropriate for school children. Lastly You have put in your brief that you
would like popular music and then go onto state at the bottom that they would
only be compensated £20 for the production, however this would be impossible as
£20 is not enough to get a popular soundtrack and still pay for production.
This will possibly encourage your applicants to break the law and not pay for
the music which would reflect badly on your company and would get your
applicants in trouble.
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