On Fri, 09 May 2008 20:45:30 +0100, James Hammerton
wrote:
>abelard wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 May 2008 21:40:00 +0100, James Hammerton
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>>>> Lord Turkey Cough wrote:
>>>>> "James Hammerton" wrote in message
>>>>> news:68h136F2stlmsU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>>>> Yet more guilt by accusation in Britain. From the BBC
>>>>>> (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7389547.stm):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "To critics it sounds like a scenario from some Orwellian nightmare.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An online database of workers accused of theft and dishonesty,
>>>>>> regardless of whether they have been convicted of any crime, which
>>>>>> bosses can access when vetting potential employees.
>>>>>>
>
>[etc...]
>
>>>>> Mind you so many business these days are run by criminals that
>>>>> they might very the the fact that you are percieved to be a criminal
>>>>> as a positive attribute, someone who would fit in well with the crooks
>>>>> already working there.
>>>> And what of the Data Protection Act?
>>>>
>>> Good question! Do employers have the right to pass on unproven
>>> allegations against their employees to other employers without the
>>> consent of the employees concerned?
>>
>> while this is (and has been) standard for many years....
>
>By "this" do you mean the practice of passing on unproven allegations
>from one employer to another? I'm sure it has occurred in an informal
>manner since year dot, but for it to be formalised with what looks like
>some sort of government backing like this seems new to me. This also
>seems a larger scale exercise than anything informal.
ok...as last post
>> 'they' have various ways of dealing with (getting around) this
>> by always 'phoning up (or meeting) for confirmation of any
>> written reference...
>> and by 'damning with faint praise'....
>> in 'professions' they widely keep black lists.....
>
>For example?
i doubt you mean specific environments as you know
i don't do that :-)
in view of the slant of some replies....i've seen more
of this in the public 'services' than in the private industry....
perhaps in government circles it is more gossip and
envy...
in the real economy i've seen it more *slanted* to competitive
advantage and revenge
in the government sector incompetence is very widespread
and there is plenty of time to plot and gossip...
in the real economy there is profit and production to consider
regards
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