12-07-2021, 14:12
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
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Originally Posted by Carth
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Quite easy you do not try to force people to learn a language for a job.
and then go on to wriggle out of it
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No I did not try to wriggle anywhere . I stand by that statement
Quite easy you do not try to force people to learn a language for a job.
There I said it again
But I will also add the rest which you conveniently decided not to repeat
Saying no one can work here who only speaks English (which you all speak) is no different to saying no women or no men. It is discriminatory
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12-07-2021, 14:26
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
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I'm pretty certain that if it genuinely was "discrimination" then the Equalities and Human Rights Commission would be all over it.
I presume they're not? That's because it isn't discrimination.
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Equality and Human Rights Commission, Article 14.
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Discrimination occurs when you are treated less favourably than another person in a similar situation and this treatment cannot be objectively and reasonably justified.
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What type of discrimination does the Act protect you from?The Human Rights Act makes it illegal to discriminate on a wide range of grounds including ‘sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status’.
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Does the right cover indirect discrimination?The courts have also ruled that the human rights protection from discrimination includes indirect discrimination. This occurs when a rule or policy, supposedly applying to everyone equally, actually works to the disadvantage of one or more groups. For example, a requirement that all employees be over six feet tall may be indirect discrimination. Women and some disabled people will be disadvantaged and to be justified this would need to be a strict requirement for the job.
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Immigration Act 2016
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77English language requirements for public sector workers
(1)A public authority must ensure that each person who works for the public authority in a customer-facing role speaks fluent English.
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12-07-2021, 14:29
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
Presumably, the Welsh Government's lawyers are confident that a requirement to speak Welsh can be objectively and reasonably justified.
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12-07-2021, 14:33
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
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Originally Posted by nomadking
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Thanks, although I'm not exactly sure why you posted that? It doesn't really have anything to do with what I said.
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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
No I did not try to wriggle anywhere . I stand by that statement
Quite easy you do not try to force people to learn a language for a job.
There I said it again
But I will also add the rest which you conveniently decided not to repeat
Saying no one can work here who only speaks English (which you all speak) is no different to saying no women or no men. It is discriminatory
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It isn't, otherwise the Equalities people would be all over it by now.
From the article:
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It said, although Welsh-language skills will progressively be needed for more posts, "developing a bilingual workforce does not mean (or imply) those skills being a universal pre-requisite for joining the Welsh government".
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You're simply overreacting on a massive scale.
Last edited by Russ; 12-07-2021 at 14:37.
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12-07-2021, 14:39
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
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Originally Posted by Russ
Thanks, although I'm not exactly sure why you posted that? It doesn't really have anything to do with what I said.
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It isn't, otherwise the Equalities people would be all over it by now.
From the article:
You're simply overreacting on a massive scale.
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just posting my opinion. None of it matters to me personally
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12-07-2021, 14:43
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
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Originally Posted by Taf
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There’s nothing in the list of requirements that anyone brought up in the Welsh education system shouldn’t be able to do already. To be honest anyone from outside Wales committed to living and working there ought to be able to get themselves in a position to do all of that within six months. As a club committee member at a Welsh university in the 1990s I, and all my English contemporaries, learned “poster Welsh” pretty quickly so we could advertise dates and locations of our meetings bilingually on campus. I’m not sure what the controversy is here.
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12-07-2021, 14:45
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
Exactly, there is no discrimination. There'll always be people who do their best to go looking for some where there is none but they won't have any luck with this.
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16-07-2021, 16:48
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
The Welsh Assembly (I refuse to refer to them as a Gov*****nt) and some Welsh local authorities have been doing this unofficially for a while. My wife works in social services, she has done a mixture of permanent and contract work over the past few years in England and Wales, and a contract working directly for the Welsh Assembly.
She was told by one large local authority whom she had worked for previously that, it was expected of her to speak or learn Welsh, and they offered her to attend an evening class. She refused, she pointed out that she already spoke five or six languages, most of them fluently. She also pointed out that where she was born English and Afrikaans was taught in school, and tribal/local languages were taught at home.
She also pointed out that as she had previous experience of the department and the job role, she was well aware that learning Welsh was a waste and that one of the Indian/Pakstani languages or east European would be more beneficial to the job role. They still employed her, it's all about supply and demand, she would have just taken a contract elsewhere.
Social services in Wales are crying out for qualified people, so I can't see them terminating anyone's contract because they accept the job and then refuse to learn Welsh, or not employ them because they refuse to learn it. They can't afford to take that approach, If they do, they will be in more of a mess than they are now.
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16-07-2021, 22:46
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
There’s a good deal of ambiguity there though … was she expected to become fluent? That’s clearly a waste of time and flies in the face of reality. It’s also not what’s being demanded in this case, which really only amounts to an ability to affirm someone’s right to initiate contact with a government agency in their first language. Seeing as it was government policy that almost drove the language to extinction in the first place, I don’t think it’s too much to ask.
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17-07-2021, 15:08
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Re: Welsh required for jobs
She was asked to attend evening classes, I don't know about the duration of those classes. I don't believe the conversation went that far.
The ability to affirm someone's right to make contact in a language other than English, would surely mean the person knowing enough of the language to direct them to someone fluent who can help with their query. If the requirement is for the person to learn to say parrot fashion, "good morning", "good afternoon" etc then that is surely a pointless exercise. The only thing there being gained then is the nationalists have scored a point. Personally knowing a few Plaid supporters, they are all to keen to point out on social media etc and make a big thing of any slight mistakes being made.
I would disagree that government policy was the only reason that drove the language to extinction, one side of my family were non-Welsh speakers and came here to work in the industry. The other side of the family came here from a Welsh speaking area of North Wales, they didn't teach their children (my grandfather) Welsh because there was no practical point. The language spoken down the mines and other industries in the South East Wales area was English. Presumably it was safer down the mines if everyone spoke the same language. (Like South Africa where they created a common language for use in the mines)
Whilst looking through the national archives a couple of years ago, I came across an article about the school my grandfather attended. The newspaper article was from the early 1900s just before he was born, and it was saying that they were having trouble teaching children Welsh as they were unable to employ any teachers who spoke Welsh.
I can understand parents wanting to teach their children the Welsh language at home, but I cannot see the use of it being taught in school. I was lucky enough to be schooled before compulsory/mandatory (The Welsh nationalists like to point out the difference) Welsh classes, but I did have to suffer the poor offerings of S4C instead of C4 in the analogue terrestrial TV days. The Welsh nationalists were of course very proud of S4C, and would often boast that it was the most expensive programme per viewer to produce in the world.
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