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Is it illegal for employers to ask for experience? |
My sister said she tried to put an advert out for an experienced stylist for her salon but was told its illegal to ask for experience as its discrimination.... I am looking for an IT career for the first time, and the vast majoirty 99.9% of jobs ask for experience. Does this mean anything? So basically they ask for experience, if they are told not to, they just wont hire anyone without experience anyways? I have seen 3 jobs in IT at entry level in the last 5 weeks of job searching, the rest all require 2 years experience or something which ..... normal people cant experience unless your in a corporate environment to use the software to begin with. So basically, is it just best to apply for all possible jobs? UK Law In October 2006, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 cam into force. This law basically made it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of age (both old and young). In your sisters case for example, putting in a job advert saying that you require applicants to have a certain amount of experience may be discrimination on the grounds of age because in short, you are asking older people to apply - i.e. an older person is more likely to have more experience than a younger person. However, there are circumstances when it is legal to discriminate, but there has to be a 'Genuine Occupational Requirement' (GOQ), for example, an actor may have to be a certain age, or it is justifiable to ask for more experience. Another example - if you were looking for a manager to lead a team of 20 people, it may be justifiable to ask for applicants that have people management experience, or degree educated....but only if you feel that you can prove the job needs it. If you have applied for a job but have been told that you do not have enough experience, you can challenge the decision and ask the Company how they have justified it. Whilst the Age Regs where well reported when they received Royal Assent and became law, many companies have fallen into the trap of discriminating against employees and applicants (in discrimination law, you do not need to be an employee of a company in order to claim against it - recruitment is a good example of this). Good Luck! Source(s): I'm a HR Manager No, it is not illegal to ask for experience, imagine you were advertising for a pilot! It is NOT illegal to ask for experience. It is illegal for anything relating to age though, so depends on how the advert was written. Some jerk told me I wasn't qualified to be a rocket surgeon. I'm going to sue. Of course its not illegal to ask for your exp..... imagine you and your chick.... no props .... you would be in trouble !!!!!!!! ITS TOTALLY LEGAL MOST PEOPLE LOOK FOR EXPERIENCE THESE DAYS ALOT MORE THAN QUALIFICATIONS |
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