January 26, 201016 yr Employer told not to post advert for 'reliable' workers because it discriminates against 'unreliable' applicants By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 6:31 PM on 26th January 2010 Comments (152) Add to My Stories A job centre has been slammed for refusing to display an advert for a 'reliable workers' - because it discriminated against unreliable applicants. Recruitment boss Nicole Mamo, 48, tried to post an advert for a £5.80-an-hour domestic cleaner on her local Jobcentre Plus website. She ended the job offer by saying that any applicants for the post 'must be very reliable and hard-working'. But when Ms Mamo called the Jobcentre Plus in Thetford, Norfolk, the following day she was told that her advert would not be displayed. Nicole Mamo, director of Devonwood Recruitment was stunned when a job centre in Thetford, Norfolk, said she could not include the phrase 'reliable and hard working' in her advert A Jobcentre Plus worker claimed that the word 'reliable' meant they could be sued for discriminating against unreliable workers. The mother-of-two from Hertfordshire today slammed the situation as 'ridiculous'. She said: 'I placed the advert on the website and when I phoned up to check I was told it hadn't been displayed in the job centre itself. The Job Centre in Thetford, Norfolk, said the advert discriminated against unreliable people 'She said "oh we can't put that advert on the job points". 'She said it was because they could have cases against them for discriminating against unreliable people. 'I laughed because I thought that was crazy. We supply the NHS with staff so it's very important for the patients that we have reliable workers. 'We find jobs for hundreds of temporary staff every week and are proud of our workers but our reputation is at stake if they aren't reliable. 'We are taking people off the dole and finding them jobs so not displaying the advert just seems absolutely ridiculous to me.' Nicole, who runs Devonwood recruitment agency and employs eight people, placed her advert on the Thetford Jobcentre Plus website on January 21 this year. The job offer, which cost nothing to display, read: 'Domestic cleaner required immediately. A variety of different shifts available. Must be fluent in written and spoken English for health and safety reasons. Previous experience preferred. Training will be provided. Must be very reliable and hard-working.' The following day Nicole phoned Thetford Jobcentre Plus and was told by a woman that her advert could not be displayed. Enlarge The 'offensive' advert which Job Centre Plus allowed on the website but not on the instore display She claimed that the job centre could be sued by unreliable people if they placed the advert on their 'job points' but told Nicole it will remain on their website. A spokeswoman for the Campaign Against Political Correctness described the decision not to display Nicole's advert as 'ridiculous'. She said: 'This situation is absolutely ridiculous - of course people want reliable workers and of course employers should be able to ask for them. 'If they can't advertise for what they actually want then the system is broken. They won't be able to find workers who meet their criteria. 'In order to have decided that the word "reliable" can't be used they must have put a great deal of thought and time into it. 'That time could be better spent getting the right people to apply for the right jobs - which is what this advert was trying to do in the first place.' A spokesman for the Department of Work and Pensions said: 'The advert in question is live on the Jobcentre Plus website intact and in Jobcentres via Jobpoints and worded as the employer requested. 'Reliability is important to employers, as it is for JCP - and we welcome ads seeking reliable applicants.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246201/Employer-told-advertise-reliable-workers--discriminates-unreliable-applicants.html#ixzz0dkgTVYEJ
January 26, 201016 yr Author Is this some new form of racism? :lol: Discrimination against "unreliable" people?:rolleyes:
January 27, 201016 yr Put me in contact with the guy who is looking for an unreliable worker! I need this job!
January 27, 201016 yr To be honest though, it's a fucking pointless thing to say anyway. Nobody is gunna read it and go "Fuck, I'm not reliable, I'm not right for this job"
January 27, 201016 yr ^THIS is what I was thinking. It's a very vague thing to write for a job's details, she may as well have written "Looking for standard employee". But yes the fact it's been censored is also stupid.
January 27, 201016 yr I doubt anyone is going to check into an applicants relibility history too deeply for a £5.80 an hour cleaning job. OMG they might lie!
January 27, 201016 yr Wouldn't that mean they were relieable?:rolleyes: That was about as unfunny as Green Wing was.
January 27, 201016 yr Author That was about as unfunny as Green Wing was. That must have bneen one helluva funny show, then!:D
January 27, 201016 yr Wouldn't that mean they were relieable?:rolleyes: That must have bneen one helluva funny show, then!:D You thought your own joke was very funny? Especially considering the joke, thats ridiculous.
January 27, 201016 yr That must have bneen one helluva funny show, then!:D It was about as funny as stabbing yourself in the eye with a kitchen knife,maybe marginally less so actually.
January 27, 201016 yr Author It was about as funny as stabbing yourself in the eye with a kitchen knife,maybe marginally less so actually. Wasn't that a Little Britain sketch?:rolleyes:
January 28, 201016 yr GodDAMN that was an utterly useless post. Anyway as if someone would be honest that they're unreliable anyway? I find this all a little ludicrous...
January 28, 201016 yr Author GodDAMN that was an utterly useless post. Anyway as if someone would be honest that they're unreliable anyway? I find this all a little ludicrous... O rely?:rolleyes:
January 28, 201016 yr Wasn't that a Little Britain sketch?:rolleyes: I don't know, I've never watched Little Britian
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