most single parents do have childrenluckyoldme...i'm not an expert in employment law but i am fairly sure that you aren't allowed to discrimiate against people when they apply for jobs....so i'd be careful how you phrase things- it sounds like you are going to refuse to employ any single parents with children here....
Point of this self pity party? Why is someone who doesn't work doing a lot better then me? I appreciate for my age I am not doing too bad, but I work bloody hard for it, and at the end of that day I'd love to sit around and play with ponies but not going to happen.
Hey pearl is this so ?
My ideal employee would be someone in my age group with a good work ethic.. or in interview speak someone more mature and experienced.
My pay rate will be slightly above the local going rate so candidates can take it or leave it. Either way I wont be employing anyone on wftc. I know many businesses locally and further affield who operate the same policy. We have to work long hours to keep our businesses going.. why should we employ folk who want to work 16 hours and then go home to play with their ponies... all funded by the government?
i was thinking more along the lines of having to pay maternity pay and a temporary worker to cover the leave... and double the training costs related to the job. It makes perfect sense really for them to reduce the risk by employing a more 'experienced male'. Im not saying its right and as a female trucker I came up against it all the time... Almost impossible to prove though.... and why is that?
I'd hazzard a guess that most employers worry about their staff having babies and not returning to work... Hello Working Tax Credits! Yes, I will go back to work, thank you very much for making my decision much easier for me
i agree with all of this and as i say i will be seeking advice and then looking for a suitable candidate based on my own criteria. However according to this thread almost every applicant i dont employ will be able to sue me for one reason or another.
Not quite.
It was the comment about refusing to employ someone who may be eligable for Working Tax Credits, simply because you don't want them to 'work a 16 hour week and trot off home to their families' that seems to have riled most people, and rightly so.
It's good that you'll be seeking advice before conducting an interview process, something tells me you're going to need it.
So to an outsider, I have a house, a large 4x4, horses, three large dogs etc (obviously the status quo from when I was married!) and was claiming benefits.
However, now one child is over 18 so my WFTC & CB has dropped dramatically and I am starting to struggle - somehow I have to try and be even more frugal! Actually I can see we will have to put this house on the market next year
As a former truck driver myself and the partner of a current truck driver and the owner of a small business i hear it all the time.
i think you havent actually read my posts. i wasn t saying i wouldn t employ women. i was talking about my experiences trying to get work as a truck driver. I said irrespective of wether it was right or wrong i could understand an employees concerns and how i influenced the outcome of an interview by telling the owner i couldnt have children. I would never dicriminate against age or sex.. i merely want to find the right person for my workplaceOr is it jsut that all the women with kids out there trying to get a job cant, because everybody thinks along the same lones as Luckyoldme, and refuses to employ them... just incase they have a baby and require maternity leave
Hey pearl is this so ? Is everyone on wftc?
From what i see on here and at home most of them are dreading their youngest becoming 18.
I can t claim it because i have no dependants.
My ideal employee would be someone in my age group with a good work ethic.. or in interview speak someone more mature and experienced.
My pay rate will be slightly above the local going rate so candidates can take it or leave it. Either way I wont be employing anyone on wftc. I know many businesses locally and further affield who operate the same policy. We have to work long hours to keep our businesses going.. why should we employ folk who want to work 16 hours and then go home to play with their ponies... all funded by the government?
Or is it jsut that all the women with kids out there trying to get a job cant, because everybody thinks along the same lines as Luckyoldme, and refuses to employ them... just incase they have a baby and require maternity leave
thats codwallop you accused me of discriminating agains women of a childbearing age... not so and i suppose if someone came along that was commited to my business that would put the hours in then fair enough but of the four examples i have quoted here i dont see anything to inspire me. I have to go now i have wasted time on this and my cat is due at the vets.
didn't stop people judging and assuming that i must somehow be claiming something i shouldn't to be able to keep them.