Registration Information
Employment Equality - Age Discrimination
On Sunday 1 October 2006 the Employment Equality (Age)
Regulations came into force. Discrimination in the workplace on
the grounds of age is now unlawful.
Randstad Education do not and have never discriminated
against candidates because of their age.
Why then do we ask for your date of birth on our
registration form?
Data protection is a very sensitive issue and one which we
take very seriously. We put a number of safe guards in to
ensure that the information supplied to us from our
registration forms is held in confidence. One of the key pieces
of information for correctly identifying a person who logs into
our website is their date of birth. A persons date of birth is
one piece of information that doesn't change. You may change
your email address, telephone number, postal address, even your
name but you will never change your date of birth. This is the
only reason we ask for your date of birth.
The same question was asked of the REC. This is what they
answered.
Q. Can we still ask for a candidate's Date of Birth
on our application form?
A. Asking for a date of birth on your application
form is not age discrimination. The problem is that if there is
no objective justification for asking for this information then
an unsuccessful candidate may infer that this information was
used to discriminate against them. In our view the need to ask
for date of birth for payroll records or even to identify
candidates with the same or similar names on your database
would be justification for asking such information.