Tribunal update: Dishonesty in job applications
XpertHR provides a summary and the full transcript of two interesting recent employment tribunal rulings involving:
- a new recruit who was dismissed after she was found to have doctored her personal details in her job application to appear 10 years younger; and
- an African job applicant who claimed race discrimination after he submitted a fake application with a British name.
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In the employment tribunals Access the XpertHR archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic.
Employment tribunal decisions 13.05.13 to 19.05.13: Christian telesales employee tells tribunal he objected to "lying" to make sales A round-up of links to stories about employment tribunal rulings reported in the week beginning 13 May 2013, during which a tribunal heard a religion or belief discrimination claim by a Christian telesales worker that he was required to lie to potential customers to make sales.