Recruitment

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Are employers legally required to seek references when recruiting?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If a job candidate is unable to attend an interview on the date or at the time proposed by the employer, is the employer obliged to rearrange the interview to suit the candidate's requirements?

• Type:

  Training

  Advertising jobs quiz - line manager training

  A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on the law and practice relating to advertising jobs.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is it permissible for an employer to specify that job applicants should have a clear spoken voice and good command of English?

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  FAQs

  In an interview what steps must an employer take to accommodate a disabled candidate for a job?

• Date:

  4 January 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Person specification seeking "younger" candidate sufficient to shift burden of proof to employer

  In Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v Beck EAT/0141/10, the EAT held that the employment tribunal was entitled to find that, notwithstanding the inherently unlikely nature of an age discrimination claim on the facts, the employer's deliberate use of the word "younger" in a person specification, contrary to expert advice, was sufficient to shift the burden of proof to the employer.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Training

  Probationary periods quiz - line manager training

  A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on the law and practice relating to probationary periods.

• Type:

  Training

  References quiz - line manager training

  A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on providing and requesting references.

• Type:

  FAQs

  When recruiting to a vacancy can an employer offer a better salary than that offered to existing employees in order to attract candidates?