Where Got Fair One?
New guidelines on Fair Employment
I was reading this article by mrbrown regarding employers treating employees unfairly and the article above and here are my thoughts.
I simply don’t understand why they are trumpeting the fact that employers are no longer allowed to ask whether you’re married or not, whether you can speak Mandarin, whether you’re male or female etc. etc.
Oh so we can hide all that information from the employers FOR NOW, but can we hide them forever? Will it change the mindsets of the employers? So they’ll invite you to go for the interviews. Once they see that you’re a woman or gay or lesbian or cannot speak Mandarin or are pregnant, they’ll just go through the motion of interviewing you. And then they won’t select you. Its as simple as that. They don’t have to divulge why you’re not suitable.
In the old way, at least they slam the door shut BEFORE you go for the interview. Now…unemployed people can waste their money needlessly on transportation to the interviews and then get rejected.
The problem is not the hard copy of the questionnaires. Its the soft tissue in the area inside their skull. I don’t see this as a solution to the problem at all.
Its like this: After all the effort put in. Photocopy educational certs, testimonials, wedding certificate, birth certificate, paste passport photo onto application form (sometimes two!), write cover letter, produce CV, buy HUGE envelope to put everything in, buy lots of stamps to ensure that the envelope won’t disappear in the mail room. Then you wait and wait and wait for them to reply. Then you go for the interview. And you get rejected.
I think employers HAVE to tell people why they are not accepted for the positions. Heck, some companies don’t even bother to inform the people that they are not accepted.
So what happens to the two photos I sent? Why don’t you return it now that you don’t want me to work for you? You keep for what? Put in your wallet is it? I could use it for my other applications. I don’t have to spend more money (since I’m unemployed) to take more passport photos. And return all my photocopies as well. That’s money too, you know. Or is it because you have to pay for the bloody stamps?
I’m not saying this because I’m unemployed. I’m saying this because I was there once. I spent many months looking for a job, going for interviews and getting nothing in return. Its very, very frustrating. There’s so many issues to deal with but nothing is being done about it.
And here they are…being proud of the fact that they’ve managed to get companies to delete the unacceptable questions from their application forms. Whoopeedoo! I did something good today!