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Originally Posted by NickIrons
I think you mis-understood me with my extensive use of
english there!!!
I don't doubt the letters valididty, I does look genuine, I
just can't see how this has any legal basis to discriminate
in such a manner. But as you said, they must know this too..
Odd situation indeed...
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Well it does. There was a case of someone who wrote job applications with entirely the same qualifications in two different identities, like I think one was black. He noticed how companies didn't give interviews to the black ones and hence he successfully managed to sue them for discrimination, without even getting as far as an interview. A company can only discriminate on things if it has a direct bearing on the job, so a job advertising a position for an actor to play a female role is not going to be affected and things like that. So the legal test would be whether smoking is something that has a direct bearing on one's ability to do the job. Now for the company to put in writing that it is breaking the law, well, that's asking for trouble.