Employers are legally entitled to a candidate for a job. If they support the existing employees of their company a rival football team, a judge has ruled.
In a hearing in Croidon in South London, Employment Judge Daniel Right suggested that an interviewer should be allowed to reject a job applicant who is a fond Tottenham Hotspur Fans if the office was full Arsenal Supporter.
He said: “There may be times when it can be completely valid for an employer to decide that a person will not just fit with the team and hence it will be difficult to work together.
“An example of this can be a small company where everyone who works in the office is an enthusiastic supporter of the Arsenal Football Club, and they decide to choose an arsenal fan in an interview on similar worthy Tottenham Hotspur season ticket holder as they do not want to harm the harmony of the office.
“There will be the decision legally (although it is not necessary to take the example to the peak).
However, the decision was given in relation to a case that had nothing to do with the support of the football teams.
Mr. Wright was hearing a case brought to court by Russian National Maya Kalina, who claimed that she was not hired by Digitus LBI during the final round of interview as she was not outgoing and did not enjoy going to the pub.
He said that the interviewer, Stephanie Hill chose not to hire her as she neither preferred to curse nor did she like to drink with colleagues, things that she usually saw as British.
Ms. Kalia, citing serious anxiety and depression, said that she did not like to drink and socialize.
Ms. Hill told the decision to appoint the tribunal another candidate “eventually … came down to fit the team”, saying that she is “more” with another interviewer.
Mr. Wright dismissed the claims of Ms. Kalina.
He said: “We have two candidates who were considered to be appointed. They were matched equally with their special strength. I do not have any wrong to see who will fit the team as long as the assessment is done with caution.”
He said: “In this case, [Ms Kalina] The British depending on a stereotype of outgoing outgoing, enjoying going to the pub, and taking a comfortable oath, while she is more restrained as she comes from a cultural background where it is not a big thing to go to the pub and drown on the swearing -in.
“I think there is no stereotype of British workers [she] Describes. I accept that many British people can be described as going to the pub, generously swearing and going out.
“But just the same British people who sink on anything, which can be considered a curse word, which avoids pub culture and who is away from going out and instead there are British hard upper lips.”