LIFO and Netreps

Just a couple of employment up-dates you may find interesting.

We have been saying the LIFO, last-in-first out, is good law and has been since redundancy was introduced. However, since the introduction of age discrimination it is now thought to be discriminatory against younger people who tend to have less service. Let me know if you want advice on safe selection methods.

Web sites like MySpace and Facebook leave an old sod like me way behind - I am only just getting to grips with this blog.

It seems that people are getting into the habit of checking potential recruits on this web sites that can contain more personal detail than applicants may have declared to you in interview, their CV's or application forms.It is called 'cyber-vetting', 'netreps' by the way are internet reputations.

If you are an employer there is no reason why you shouldn't use this form of check but beware. Avoid printing out these details - you may be providing a paper trail for a discrimination claim. You cannot be sure who put the details on the web-site. Do not use the information in any other way than to ask questions at interview and also seek to support or otherwise by references, etc.

If you are applying for a job make sure that your entries on these sites are suitable - clean them up. Don't brag about the amount of ale you consume or demonstrate any negative feelings - you don't know who is looking!

What do you think?