Recruitment consultants

A Age A-Z Appearance B Babies and childcare Behaviour-based questions Benefits C Credit checks Criminal records D Disability Discrimination Domestic employment Dress code Drug testing E Entitlement to work in New Zealand Ethnicity or national origins Equality F Family status Flexibility G Good employer H Health HIV Honesty I Indirect discrimination Interview J Job advertisements K Kids Knowledge L Liability M Marital status Mental illness Migrants N Non-discrimination O Overweight/obesity P Paid parental leave Partner, spouse or relatives Photographs Police vetting Political opinion Pregnancy Privacy Q Qualifications Questions R Race Reasonable accommodation Recruitment consultants Relatives Religious belief Risk of harm S Sex Sexual harassment Sexual orientation Speaking English T Tattoos Transgender/Trans people Treaty of Waitangi U Union membership Unsuccessful applications V Volunteers W Women-only X Xenophobia Y Young people Can an employer ask a recruitment consultant to ensure that the only job applicants who are short-listed are from a particular group, for example young or Pakeha? No. In the publication Tools for Tapping into Talent: a Recruitment Training Resource http://www.eeotrust.org.nz/toolkits/talent.cfm the Equal Employment Opportunities Trust and the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association noted that many recruitment consultants have been compromised or embarrassed either by managers who require them to behave illegally, unfairly or unethically, or by their clients’ discriminatory briefs. In such situations the Act applies equally to the recruitment consultant and to the employer.