Job Advert Response

26/03/2020

To whom it may concern, 

I'm writing this letter to point out the different issues with the letter that i see within your job advertisement. The job role mentioned is slightly detailed, but could be more explicit in what the person applying has to do.

From reading the job advertisement it is clear that The Equality Act (2010) has been broken, this is because to begin with it breaks the employment equality (religion or belief) regulations 2003 as you are specifically asking for people with Christian beliefs. Then also the employment equality (age) regulations 2003 is infringed as only under 30 year olds are being requested, when the regulation states that asking for a specific age is not aloud. The equal opportunities legislation upholds the idea that all workers within an organisation should be entitled to and have access to all of the organization's facilities at every stage of employment, including the pre-employment phase. Linking to the health and safety legislation which says that employers are responsible for making sure that all their employees are safe at work and are protected from possible dangers to health. This means you asking the employee to interview offenders is possibly putting them in danger.

It's important that applicants avoid any legal issues whilst applying for this job which is why the code of practice must be discussed. This will tell them about occupational health and safety laws and how to comply with legal obligations. Also they must know about policies and procedures which should influence and determine all major decisions and actions, and all activities take place within the boundaries set by them. There is also some social concerns i have within your advertisement and that is the fact that your implying there is only female victims and only male offenders which is not the case. This would arise many issues with the public that see the video. Also using just a popular music soundtrack wouldn't be correct for an important subject like this as it wouldn't be appropriate to what is going on.

By looking at the BBFC classification guidelines the video would have to be given an 18 which means anyone under that age should watch it, this creates legal issues as you are planning on showing it to high school students that are not of that age yet. It is given the 18 certificate because this allows portrayals of rape whereas anything lower does not. You must take and consider the intellectual property law which governs the ownership and accessibility of ideas and inventions on tangible and intangible concepts. Asking the applicant to use a popular music soundtrack would be breaking copyright laws as any kind of music like that would have to be asked to use and would have to pay a lot of money for it, which the applicant wouldn't have. They would have to use royalty free music that can be downloaded for free.

Yours sincerely,


Faith Willeard