Can you imagine the furore if I placed an ad for workers that only spoke English? The Polish Company, Forza that supplies Asda with meat does just that. It runs it´s health and safety courses in Polish only. so if you only speak English, you can fuck the fuck off.
Forza’s advert was sent out via email by East Anglia-based employment agency OSR Recruitment earlier this month.
Headed ‘Immediate factory work available!!!!’ it continued: ‘If you are available or have any friends available, work is starting tomorrow for induction training.
‘Ongoing factory work (meat production) for 4-5 months, shifts are 7am-5pm or 9am-7pm.
‘Transport provided. Applicants must speak Polish. Please call asap!!!!!!’
The advert was signed Katrina Massingham, the company’s ‘industrial team leader’ and it was dispatched to hundreds of potential applicants on the firm’s books.
I´ve seen this story in a few of the papers this morning. Of course the company has said it was a mistake and have withdrawn the offending advert but the damage is done and the intention was clear. ONLY POLISH SPEAKERS NEED APPLY!
I can´t help thinking that they will still carry out their little "selection process" despite knowing they are breaking the law.
British workers had spoken of difficulty in registering with employment agencies that supply mainly East European workers.
"A Daily Mail Reporter listened in as the 31-year-old man called OSR to ask about the jobs last Tuesday.
The first question he was asked was: ‘Are you Polish?’ When he said no, but could speak the language ‘a little’, he was told: ‘Actually, you have to be fluent because the health and safety training is all done in Polish.’
By Friday, however, after The Mail on Sunday rang again several times and got the same response, the company appeared to have second thoughts about the wisdom of the advert.
An OSR employee gave a different version to a Polish-speaking reporter saying: ‘Actually, you don’t have to be Polish, but it helps.’
When another reporter posed as an English applicant, Ms Massingham told him that all the jobs had been filled but that the language requirement was ‘not too important now’.
She added: ‘For some reason the training was in Polish but we’re trying to get them to change it, because it’s a bit silly, really’.
Earlier, OSR also posted the advert in Polish in several of the Eastern European shops in East Anglia"
Read the rest in the Mail.
The UK Government is a fucking joke and treats it´s own citizens with contempt and utter vileness.
