JP: Linux System Adminstrator, UofT St. George

[Fernando Duran]

--- Jamon Camisso <jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> interlug-vSRlqIl1h/9eoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org wrote:

> >   So I asked a law student that I know, what the
> deal is.  Turns out we 
> > are all correct.  It's wrong to use a photo of the
> applicant for 
> > discrimination.  But it's okay to require a photo
> if it is needed for 
> > some reason.  See the example below.  

I think that's the idea and it's clearly expressed in
the Human Rights Comission documents; the employers
can ask for things if they are related to performing
the job, like a picture if you are applying for a
modeling job, or they can discriminate against people
in wheelchairs if the job requires lifting heavy
equipment (that's why in retail you have to confirm
you can lift 20 pounds or whatever) or driving a
forklift, but not if the job involves say, writing
code in a computer.

> 
> It's too bad that if you submit a photo and it is
> used for 
> discriminatory purposes i.e. you don't get an
> interview lets say, you 
> can't really prove that you were subject to
> discrimination. As much as 
> the Charter is there, it shouldn't really apply. If
> anyone applying for 
> a job submits a photo with their application because
> it is requested, 
> then they are complicit in whatever violation of
> whatever rights they 
> claim are being violated -- if you permit it you
> promote it.

I disagree. We're going way off-topic here, but that's
like saying that people who sign abusive contracts (by
ignorance for example) are accomplices of people doing
something illegal in the first place.

> 
> Wrong or not, there isn't really anything to be done
> about it IMO, apart 
> from not submitting a photo.

Something can be done, in the same way that when you
see something you think is illegal; you can report it
to the proper place - the Human Rights Comission in
this case, and then they'll investigate the case.

Fernando

> 
> Jamon
> --


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Fernando Duran
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