Employers responsible for women's equality
Employers need to do more to improve the position of women in the workplace, the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) has advised.
The word of warning to sales managers and sales executives alike follows a spate of recent research that suggested women in positions such as sales jobs are still being treated unfairly at work.
More than half of bosses assess the chances of a candidate falling pregnant before employing them, research by the Employment Law Advisory Services Ltd.
Some 76 per cent of managers also claimed they would not offer a woman a job if she were likely to fall pregnant within six months.
Secretary of the ELA Richard Linskell explained that companies need to train not only HR, but anyone making promotion decisions or interviewing new candidates, such as sales managers in sales recruitment drives.
"It's also useful for employers to have proper job and person specifications when appointing candidates and make it clear to them that it is their abilities to do the job which are the only factors that should be taken into account," he added.
Filed: 06-05-2008
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