Danger! Idiots at work.

[SK.news.DE]

The government are to go ahead with the Limited Abilities Act. This will make it illegal for employers to discriminate against job seekers who don't have the required skills or knowledge for the position they are applying for. A DWP spokesman said that legislation was the only way to improve their employment prospects. Will this new law put the general public at risk from people who don't know what they're doing?

[TCL-MUMPING]

Have you a link? I'd have thought it was more a BERR suggestion than DWP.

[VHG]

>This will make it illegal for employers to discriminate >against job seekers who don't have the required skills
>or knowledge for the position they are applying for.

Good job this was not in force before Gordon Brown became prime minister.

[VHG]

Actually never heard of this before, but it sounds totally stupid.

Surely the reason for an interview for ANY job is to find out what skills the person has and if they are suitable for the job.

This would open up for all sorts of people to "sue" a company because they did not get taken on for a particular job.

Person goes for a job as deep sea diver:

Employer: Can you swim

Applicant: No

Employer: Ever been deep sea diving

Applicant: no

Employer: Sorry you are not suitable

Applicant: That is discrimination, I am going to sue you.

[kempie]

Of course there is no link - corroborative evidence would undermine Newsdesk's style of trollage.

[ChuckFickens]

I'd be more worried about interviews for commercial airline pilot jobs!!

[VHG]

>A DWP spokesman said that legislation was the ONLY
>way to improve their employment prospects.

ONLY way ?

How about the applicant getting some training and skills BEFORE they apply for the job.

This is another one of those "PC gone mad" schemes.

True story:

There was an advert in the paper for an air traffic controllers job.

The advert said "If you want a copy of this job application in braille just contact us".

A blind air traffic controller !!!!!

[paraffin]

This is really nothing new - what about policies they've had in place for years, i.e. accepting people into Police Forces from ethnic minorities simply to satisfy Home Office "quotas".
Some of the people to whom I refer may not have had the necessary qualifications etc but were recruited simply because of their ethnic origins.

[obNOXious]

I'd like to be a brain surgeon please:)

[paraffin]

VHG: I expect that, having been turned down for so many other jobs, maybe he was just having a stab in the dark?
Sorry to offend the "Outraged of Tunbridge Wells" Bigade by that comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tiggerblue10]

Great! Ministers can now apply for cleaning jobs.

[sqad617]

obNOXious...LOL you are far too intelligent for that and anyway you are probably British.

[naomi24]

You been demoted, SK? You are a one! :o)

[TCL-MUMPING]

I've just Googled "LIMITED ABILITIES" DWP and it had 98 hits. I ask again, do you have a link?

[eltelioni]

I have no idea what legislation this refers to. It is clearly a wind-up.

[Gromit]

To be fair, the Limited Abilities Act was only introduced after extensive trialing over 50 years with the Royal Family.

[Nannyjillx2]

Thought it already existed.... especially in some of the banking jobs ...

[Aprilis]

Does this mean I could apply for a job as a Lecturer so I can lecture people on a subject I know absolutely diddly squat about? Ooh, I'd be just like an MP...contributing to sending this country to the dogs and getting paid lots to do it.

[weecalf]

Well it seem to be in force as Mandy has not been voted in yet his is doing a ministerial job for Gordy

[sp1814]

Is there a link to this story? Google lists nothing under the limited abilities act.

[Tizzi247]

Surely Health & Safety should be on to this?