Registration Information
Employment Equality - Age Discrimination
On Sunday 1 October 2006 the Employment Equality (Age)
Regulations came into force. Discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of
age is now unlawful.
Select Education do not and have never discriminated against
candidates because of their age.
Why then do we ask for your date of birth on our registration form?
Data protection is a very sensitive issue and one which we take
very seriously. We put a number of safe guards in to ensure that the
information supplied to us from our registration forms is held in confidence.
One of the key pieces of information for correctly identifying a person who
logs into our website is their date of birth. A persons date of birth is one
piece of information that doesn't change. You may change your email address,
telephone number, postal address, even your name but you will never change your
date of birth. This is the only reason we ask for your date of birth.
The same question was asked of the REC. This is what they
answered.
Q. Can we still ask for a candidate's Date of Birth on our
application form?
A. Asking for a date of birth on your application form is
not age discrimination. The problem is that if there is no objective
justification for asking for this information then an unsuccessful candidate
may infer that this information was used to discriminate against them. In our
view the need to ask for date of birth for payroll records or even to identify
candidates with the same or similar names on your database would be
justification for asking such information.
If you have any queries about this please email education@selecteducation.com
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