Is there a legal requirement for an employer to provide a job description for each job vacancy?
How does a firm know if a job requires the holder to be an approved person?
Should employers always appoint the applicant with the highest level of qualifications to a post?
In what circumstances could an employer's requirements and conditions of the job lead to claims of discrimination?
In specifying the requirements for a job, what steps can an employer take to ensure that it is not liable to claims of indirect discrimination?
An employer must ensure that the requirements
specified for candidates' qualifications, experience, skills, etc are carefully
matched to the needs of the job. If a particular criterion or condition could
potentially have a disproportionate adverse impact on people with a particular protected characteristic, the employer should check whether it is genuinely necessary for the
effective performance of the job. For example, a requirement for candidates to hold a specific qualification from a UK institution could be indirect race discrimination as candidates of foreign nationality would be less likely to hold the qualification. The employer should consider whether it can justify the requirement or whether it could, for example, accept equivalent foreign qualifications.
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