Shortlisting job candidates

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• Type:

  FAQs

  How can an employer draw up a shortlist for a position without discriminating against applicants?

• Date:

  2 October 2005

  Type:

  Law reports

  The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority v Burns

  In The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority v Burns EAT/0004/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal misdirected itself in inferring disability discrimination where the employer, after shortlisting, had the opportunity to clarify any omissions or deficiencies on a disabled applicant's application form and add him to the shortlist.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is it permissible to exclude from a shortlist any job applicants who submit untidy or badly written applications?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is it unlawful to exclude a job applicant from the shortlist on the grounds that their disability would cause practical difficulties for the employer?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If a job applicant has suffered from a debilitating illness in the past, can they be excluded from the shortlist?

• Date:

  1 March 2000

  Type:

  Law reports

  Conduct at tribunal increased injury

  Taking into account the way the respondents conducted their case at the tribunal hearing, a Sheffield employment tribunal (Chair: D R Snaith) in Hussain v (1) Wright, (2) Walters and (3) Jasmoor Rent A Car Ltd increases its award of compensation for injury to feelings against the employer from £7,000 to £11,000, following its finding that the applicant was not shortlisted for a job interview on racial grounds.

• Date:

  1 June 1999

  Type:

  Law reports

  Black teachers face promotion bias

  Three black teachers who were not short-listed for management posts whilst all five other candidates - all white - were short-listed, were discriminated against on racial grounds, holds a London South employment tribunal (Chair: J Warren) in Hazelhurst and others v (1) Governors of Warwick Park School and (2) London Borough of Southwark.

• Date:

  1 December 1997

  Type:

  Law reports

  Sex bias in senior recruitment at university

  Finding the vice-chancellor's explanation as to why a woman who met the essential criteria for a senior non-academic post did not make it onto the shortlist as neither satisfactory nor convincing, a Belfast industrial tribunal (Chair: M Davey) in Fryers v University of Ulster rules that the unsuccessful candidate was discriminated against on grounds of sex and awards £33,000 compensation.

• Date:

  1 December 1996

  Type:

  Law reports

  Ex-employee victimised

  In Humberstone v (1) MacFadyen and (2) University of Southampton a Southampton industrial tribunal (Chair: D N Cowling) holds that a former employee who was not shortlisted for a vacancy was unlawfully victimised because she had brought a grievance alleging sex discrimination when she was previously employed.

• Date:

  1 March 1995

  Type:

  Law reports

  Pakistani doctor discriminated against

  A Pakistani doctor who was not shortlisted for a medical post because he could not meet the job requirements was unlawfully indirectly discriminated against, rules an Edinburgh industrial tribunal (Chair: S Krietman) in Mian v Common Services Agency and Brotherston.