Increasing litigation has resulted in an explosion in the number of discrimination cases brought to tribunal, many of them successfully, at immense cost to employers.
With the emphasis upon the employer to prove their innocence of such charges, best practise really does dictate that all stages of the recruitment process be documented.
Therefore, Latham creates an individually numbered work file for each recruitment project, into which is kept all documentation, from:
- The initial briefing for the advertisement
- Job and person specification
- All of the responses to the recruitment campaign
- The interview process
- Offers of employment
- A Diversity Monitoring review
In the event of a complaint, you will be able to confidently review whether you believe that the complainant has a case or not, and act accordingly.
If brought before an employment tribunal, without the evidence of your innocence, you will lose any claim of discrimination.
