Employee Factsheet: Recruitment and Selection

Advertising and Sourcing Applicants

Employees have a right to:

• not be discriminated against on the grounds of their sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, disability, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and age or membership or non-membership of a trade union..

Employees have a duty to:

• be honest in the personal information disclosed in the recruitment and selection process

• abide by the agreement they reach on accepting employment.

Employers should:

• avoid any direct or indirect discrimination in job advertisements

• publicise internal vacancies in such a way that all potential candidates have an equal chance of seeing them.