Suggestions To Avoid Being Penalized For Personnel Discrimination

Employers and recruiters must assess the way in which the process to select personnel is handled, in order to avoid committing discrimination acts and being subject to suffer claims from rejected applicants, and possibly being sentenced in civil, labor or criminal processes, if such discrimination is proven.

Currently, in general terms, personnel selection processes in Ecuador have acquired vices that automatically reveal a discriminatory culture which makes it difficult for certain profiles to access a job position. Specifications about genre, age, or the requirement of a photograph in the curriculum vitae of the applicant, are frequent requirement; however, these requirements have nothing to do with the job description or with the responsibilities such applicant may have within the corporation.