h a religious/creed organization? In other words, if you are the hiring authority, doing the hiring of workers or choosing status of potential hires, and if you and Joe Schmoe have a religiously tied relationship on the outside, ie, belong to the same creed social engine, whether it be the Masons or Catholics or Kof C or what have you, he would be eliminated from being eligible to be hired by you or you would have to recuse yourself from that capacity as a hiring agent?
Could this have some affect on the religiously intentional or otherwise, discriminational hiring that goes on in our work places?
2007-08-18 07:23:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Honestly, is this really a huge problem? Maybe where you live it is. I think perhaps a better approach is transparency in hiring -- i.e. some type of oversight committee, where if one could prove that a more qualified candidate was passed over in favor of one of a certain religion, there could be legal recourse.
Because, with your approach, wouldn't we have to stop not just at religion, but include all the other forms of discrimination (gender, politics, economic status, etc). So you'd have to recuse yourself if basiclly you shared ANY THING in common whatsoever with the applicant.
2007-08-21 03:18:08 · answer #1 · answered by wenteast 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you owned the business, I would think it would be ok to hire someone because he was a friend or someone you knew, provided you weren't discriminating against anyone else based on religion, race, etc. If you work for someone else and are in charge of the hiring, you should tell your boss about the situation. I'm not sure that how you came about to know or be friends with that person is very relevant.
Although I do agree that if hiring friends and acquaintances is a common practice, it can lead to unintentional discrimination.
2007-08-25 11:29:12 · answer #2 · answered by Alan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way you have framed your question,it could give rise to a host of potentially
hypothetical situations.Why don't you try to be
more specific?The scenario you have thrown open could stir up a lot of acrimonius answers.Could it be that you do wish to stir up a hornet's nest?
2007-08-26 06:41:19 · answer #3 · answered by ramchandra b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋