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Campbell Ritchie wrote:It was not intended to discriminate so much as to provide a few minutes' conversation about a neutral subject to let the
victimapplicant settle down before the “real” questions.
In the jobs I was applying for back then, that info was all known already, and people usually moved, so they were not “real” questions. You are describing something different. As I said, that sort of question went out many years ago.Jan de Boer wrote: . . .
The guy actually had a note in front of him, which looked like it was the general set of questions he wanted to ask, something like:
name
present salary
location and travel time
home situation
Hence the answer was probably important, not for small talk.
And if that isn't unlawful discrimination on the grounds of marital status, I don't know what is.. . . For example if you have trouble in your thuissituatie, it mostly means you are going through a rough divorce case. . . .
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:If somebody applies for a job paying £55000 from a current salary of £23000 people will get suspicious.
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
Ulf Dittmer wrote:The question about the previous salary might be advantageous for the employer to know, but I wouldn't answer it. The salary should be in line with what a future employee brings to a company, and what they're asking of him; since that might be very different from the previous company, there's no benefit for the prospective employee to divulge it.
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