What if your company could be sued by employees you didn’t hire because they came late to an interview or missed the appointment altogether?
That’s the situation one Scottish company recently faced.
Darren Mirren, a 16-year-old Glasgow resident, recently took a cleaning company to court after he failed to get a job with them.
Why wasn’t he hired? Because he never showed up to his interview. He got lost on the way and blamed the company for failing to give adequate directions.
The boy felt he was given bad directions because he was too young for the job, hence the discrimination suit. (Unlike the U.S., British law apparently allows suits from people who feel they were discriminated against for being too young.)
Not surprisingly, the tribunal threw the case out, adding that the court system needs a procedure in place to weed out frivolous suits.
