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LargeAddick
LargeAddick Posts: 32,930
edited August 2011 in General Charlton
and it includes :

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job the employee
is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently
required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.

I think I'm going to wet myself soon !! 


Comments

  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,636
    Poor description missed out breathing and blinking 
  • DRF
    DRF Posts: 2,455
    Since when is sitting and listening physically demanding!
  • CrayAddick
    CrayAddick Posts: 3,915
    I see someone is the new office bitch ;)
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,454
    How odd?   Very strange.

    Sounds like someone trying to get around disability legislation.

    I'm assuming this is a finance/accounting job?
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    classic
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,636
    Sounds to me that HR have developed a form which is generic for the company and some one has received in the office as opposed to the warehouse and taken every section literally, or taken the p, by being lietral.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,930
    How odd?   Very strange.

    Sounds like someone trying to get around disability legislation.

    I'm assuming this is a finance/accounting job?
    yes, a regulatory Reporting role.
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,965
    the real questions are:

    Could a deaf person do the job?
    Could a person with only one arm or a deformity to the arms do the job?
    Could a person in a wheelchair do the job?

    If the answer to all three of these questions is NO, even with reasonable support, then they are rightly making the practical restrictions of the role clear.
    If, however, any one of the examples COULD do the job (even if it meant a reasonable amount of support needed to be provided) then the company is discriminating against people with disabilities.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,454
    edited August 2011
    From experience my guess is that this firm has had issues recently with someone with a disability and/or work related condition such as carpel tunnel syndrome and is trying to prevent it happening again.

    Well dodgy and challengeable in an ET  IMHO

    Anyway good luck with the application.  Get in touch if I can help with that or the interview stage.

    EDIT  typing while Romford was posting.  Agree totally.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,856
    Since when is sitting and listening physically demanding!

    Deaf person with piles?

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,262
    hmmmm - do you think you are up to it Large.............looks very demanding !!
  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    I suspect it is intended to exclude Spanners and Nigels.  If so it will succeed.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,128
    Oh well!....... another one bites the dust.
    Just been turned down for the Charlton job as well, so sorry Henry 'no'  to the return of the column from me anyway........

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,454
    Oh well!....... another one bites the dust.
    Just been turned down for the Charlton job as well, so sorry Henry 'no'  to the return of the column from me anyway........

    Shame - you not getting job that is, although I would do the column again given the chance (and fee).

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