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		<title>Job Ad For &#8220;Reliable Worker&#8221; Labelled Discriminatory</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Job posting is seen as discriminatory because it asked for "reliable" individuals. Job agency fear they would be sued by unreliable applicants!]]></description>
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<p>This is going to be the BEST thing you heard all day. A job centre in England refused to display an advertisement asking for a &#8220;reliable worker&#8221; because they risk being sued by unreliable workers for being discriminatory. Have you ever heard anything more ridiculous?!</p>
<p>The ad said the following:</p>
<p><em><strong>Domestic cleaner required immediately for local hospital. A variety of different shifts available. Must be fluent in written and spoken English for Health &amp; Safety reasons. Previous experience preferred. If you have a current CRB, it would be an advantage but not necessary. Training will be provided. Must be reliable and hard working</strong></em></p>
<p>I wonder why they didn&#8217;t go after the part where they wanted fluent written and spoken English.. Isn&#8217;t that discriminating against 75% of the British population?! And I presume &#8220;Health &amp; Safety&#8221; has now magically become a proper noun &#8211; because of the capital letters?</p>
<p>So the job centre refused to display the ad because they didn&#8217;t want to be discriminatory. Does this mean that soon I sue a law firm or hospital for discrimination because I don&#8217;t hold a law degree or any medical qualifications? Of course not! What a giant load of rubbish.</p>
<p>The person who banned this job should be in line waiting to find a new one because it seems that they are too incompetent to do their present one.</p>
<p>But it doesn&#8217;t really surprise me. I mean, this is coming from a country with a government that is allowing hoards of foreign people to come and be workers when a huge percentage of the population is just sitting on it&#8217;s bum, in a council house, drinking lager on a sofa watching daytime TV with a pack of cigarettes surrounded by a whole bunch of babies and collecting welfare cheques. There&#8217;s just no incentive for anyone to do anything..</p>
<p>But if you think about it, what percentage of the &#8220;unreliable&#8221; people would actually have the energy to go out and find a lawyer to fight a case for them because of the wording in this ad being discriminatory? Probably not very many, since they&#8217;re unreliable and lazy!</p>
<p>Bah.</p>
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