[Gllug] OT: Health on job applications

[Jason Clifford]

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

> This is way before any trust gets involved.  The only utility of
> asking this kind of question at the application form stage is to
> provide a method to weed out people on health grounds.  Discriminate
> based on health, in other words.

There's nothing wrong with that (except where you discriminate based upon 
disability which is a different thing).

My experience is that this usually means the company is seeking to avoid 
people who take lots of "sickies" to supplement their holiday entitlement.

Jason Clifford
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