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  • Click to View A,B,C

    A

    • Age A-Z
    • Appearance

    B

    • Babies and childcare
    • Behaviour-based questions
    • Benefits

    C

    • Credit checks
    • Criminal records
  • Click to View D,E,F

    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
  • Click to View G,H,I

    G

    • Good employer

    H

    • Health
    • HIV
    • Honesty

    I

    • Indirect discrimination
    • Interview
  • Click to View J,K,L

    J

    • Job advertisements

    K

    • Kids
    • Knowledge

    L

    • Liability
  • Click to View M,N,O

    M

    • Marital status
    • Mental illness
    • Migrants

    N

    • Non-discrimination

    O

    • Overweight/obesity
  • Click to View P,Q,R

    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
  • Click to View S,T,U,V

    S

    • Sex
    • Sexual harassment
    • Sexual orientation
    • Speaking English

    T

    • Tattoos
    • Transgender/Trans people
    • Treaty of Waitangi

    U

    • Union membership
    • Unsuccessful applications

    V

    • Volunteers
  • Click to View W,X,Y,Z

    W

    • Women-only

    X

    • Xenophobia

    Y

    • Young people

Can an employer advertise for a male nurse to look after an elderly male patient who doesn’t want a female nurse?

In this example it is probably going to be difficult to prove that being male is a genuine occupational qualification. The law in this area remains to be tested.
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