National Staff Dismissal Register
Eh?
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. But this is no dystopian fantasy. Later this month, the National Staff Dismissal Register (NSDR) is expected to go live.
You what? a database of accusations? That will then be used by employers to make the case for or against employment of an individual worker? Clearly (as Chris points out) vulnerable to a defamation suit, for obviously such a thing must be a purely private sector initiative, yes? We don't, as yet at least, have a government stupid enough to either get involved in something like this or to provide it with any legal protections, do we.
The register is an initiative of Action Against Business Crime (AABC), a partnership between the Home Office and the British Retail Consortium.
Ah, yes, we do have one that stupid.
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Poppi
May 9th, 2008 2:55pmThere should be an employees equivalent for employers who abuse their employees or take advantage by changing employees contract of employment without consultation or just cause.
Will
May 10th, 2008 7:56pmWhy hasn't my comment, pointing out that this blog is utter rubbish, been posted? Anyone who'd actually bothered to read the BBC piece would know this is nothing to do with the Home Office.
"he Home Office says it stopped funding the scheme last year, having granted it almost £1m during its first three years. A Home Office spokeswoman says the register is a "commercial scheme" and it was not consulted."
Matthew Slyman
May 12th, 2008 10:00amI second this. Employers should have access to criminal records of any convictions RELEVANT to their particular field of employment. They should NOT have access to prior ACCUSATIONS, except where multiple accusations have been registered against the same person by three or more distinct and independent companies.