The number of newly registered incorporated engineers continues to decline. The strategy of the Engineering Council is clearly not aligned to supporting the engineering technologist professional. Given the governments commitment to technical education the IET should create their own professional register to provide a relevant standard. It is obvious the current UKSPEC standard lacks credibility in terms of the IEng grade
What tends to happen is that HR departments will put this out as an edict as, frankly, it is dangerous for most managers to make these sort of decisions themselves as it is very easy to get it wrong - it's not just first order effects but also second and third order implications. It's an identical situation to Health and Safety, you and I know well that mostly when people say "you can't do that because of H&S law" what they actually mean is "you can't do that because our internal guidelines as to how we show compliance to H&S law say you can't". If a manager does show proactively that they have considered discrimination then if it does go to tribunal it will certainly be much easier for all concerned, so it's a good thing to do, just not a legal requirment.
Apologies, I meant to put into my first post that I know the very good reasons you were advised of this, but sent it quickly (hence also spelling mistake ) due to this wretched work stuff
What tends to happen is that HR departments will put this out as an edict as, frankly, it is dangerous for most managers to make these sort of decisions themselves as it is very easy to get it wrong - it's not just first order effects but also second and third order implications. It's an identical situation to Health and Safety, you and I know well that mostly when people say "you can't do that because of H&S law" what they actually mean is "you can't do that because our internal guidelines as to how we show compliance to H&S law say you can't". If a manager does show proactively that they have considered discrimination then if it does go to tribunal it will certainly be much easier for all concerned, so it's a good thing to do, just not a legal requirment.
Apologies, I meant to put into my first post that I know the very good reasons you were advised of this, but sent it quickly (hence also spelling mistake ) due to this wretched work stuff
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