[Gllug] OT: Health on job applications

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> And how will they evaluate the validity of your sick leave based on
> the small amount of information provided?  No, this is solely to
> penalise "sickly" people with no way to prevent discrimination.

They will simply take a decision based upon their own experience of 
dealing with staff who take more time off for sickness.

Presumably there is space for your to specify what the reason for the time 
off was so they can see if it appears reasonable (ie, broken leg or 
similar as opposed to hangover).

> This is NOT part of the equal opportunities evaluation section of the
> application.

Neither should it be. It's only an EO matter if it's about disability in 
this respect which is a different matter.

> Tell me you could guarantee that no company would put someone on the
> bottom of the pile if they took four weeks off and listed "AIDS" as
> the reason.

Why shouldn't the company do that?

Seriously the company is not a social security opportunity - they have a 
business to uphold and if they decide they don't want to employ people who 
are likely to need lots of time off that is their choice.

We all want employers to treat us reasonably. It does need to be a two way 
thing.

Jason Clifford
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