Any legal recourse regarding job rejection?

[threebikesmcginty]

If it's a plc you could always buy a few shares and ask a leading question at the AGM!

Or do as I did - work out how long the useless and incompetent management are going to take to sink the company and see how accurate your prediction is. (I predicted 5 years and it took 6).

That's why you didn't get the job - rubbish forecasting!

 

[Davidc]

That's why you didn't get the job - rubbish forecasting!

I'd have been alright then if it'd been a job as a weatherman?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'd have been alright then if it'd been a job as a weatherman?

Fitted in very well I rec!

 

[Edge705]

Avoid employing unlucky people throw half the CV's in the bin

 

[ASC1951]

job applications have to be assessed without discrimination. You can't pick and choose on the basis of race, gender, disability, age or whatever. ....... Put simply, Mr. X, you have a case.

No, Dellzegg, you're wrong. Employers are allowed to select employees on any daft criterion they choose unless it is one of the specifically proscribed characteristics, or it is a criterion which is an indirect substitute for that characteristic.

If these numpties want to appoint someone less qualified just because he is related to the boss, they are perfectly entitled to do so.

 

[biggs682]

sounds about right

 

[yello]

If these numpties want to appoint someone less qualified just because he is related to the boss, they are perfectly entitled to do so.

In a nutshell.

The employers would obviously dress that rationale up a bit but they're under no obligation to employ someone just because they are the most qualified. Besides, 'most qualified' is not the same thing as most suited to the role. As I said before, simple 'face fits' understandably plays a part.

 

[Moodyman]

If you're white and heterosexual you're going to find it extremely difficult proving discrimination.

I once rejected an application from someone who is brown. He argued that I was racist - despite me also being brown.

I had to provide a full report explaining why the applicant was unsuccessful. I was also interrogated by two HR reps.

 

[swee'pea99]

If you're white and heterosexual you're going to find it extremely difficult proving discrimination.

I once rejected an application from someone who is brown. He argued that I was racist - despite me also being brown.

I had to provide a full report explaining why the applicant was unsuccessful. I was also interrogated by two HR reps.

Have to say that rings very true with my rooted-in-ignorance take on the whole thing. My guess would be that in order to have any hopes of pressing a claim, you'd have to prove not only that you were brown but that your brown-ness was wholly responsible for your rejection. And I suspect that would be impossible, or as near as makes no difference. In my experience, you can't fight city hall - or nepotism.