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To all the semantically inclined,
as a recent posting of mine concerning a job opening in my laboratory caused
some unexpected stir, I feel compelled to add a few remarks:
-- The reference to "preferential consideration" of women and handicapped
applicants is a legal requirement for any advertisement of any
government-paid job in Germany
-- While the wording might be (mis)interpreted in different ways, as very
often is the case when you attempt to state a complex issue rather briefly,
I am satisfied to see that all of you obviously understood what was meant
-- Of course, you may call this "affirmative action", but since an
equivalent expression does not exist in Germany, and since this is a job at
a German -- not U.S. -- university, it would not make any sense whatsoever
to introduce this expression, as it has no legal standing in this country
-- The Ruhr University Bochum is not an "unequal opportunity employer", as
some of you suspected. By German law, female applicants and those that are
handicapped have to be "preferentially considered". This does n o t mean
they have to be "preferentially hired". All it means is that, according to
German law, you have to give female and handicapped applicants an extra
careful look, and you have to state specific reasons why you might have
turned down their applications in favor of a male, non-handicapped person.
This is a reasonable demand which simply requires you to do what should come
naturally anyway, but unfortunately too often does not: to hire people
without regard of gender or handicapped status, provided the applicants are
equally qualified for the job at hand. I trust that none of you are having a
problem with that principle.
Sincerely,
Michael Hollmann
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Dept. Biochemistry I - Receptor Biochemistry
Faculty of Chemistry
Ruhr University Bochum
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Universitaetsstrasse 150
D-44780 Bochum
Germany
Tel.: (49)-(0)234-322-4225
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> John,
>
>> I interpret this to mean that if one has three candidates with
>> identical professional qualifications, that any who are female and/or
>> handicapped (physically, presumably) would be given preference. I
>> agree that the wording is fraught with possibilities, some amusing
>> and some not so amusing, depending upon how it is read. Ah, semantics.
>
> So they mean 'unequal opportunity employer'.
>
> I'm not knocking the principle of 'Affirmative Action' but if that's
> their philosophy they should say so, not try to 'have their cake and
> eat it'!
>
> Guy
>
>
>>> On a recent posting to this list I read the following:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The Ruhr University Bochum is an equal opportunity employer. Women and
>>>> handicapped persons will be preferentially considered when equally
>>>> qualified.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can someone explain this to me?
>>>
>>>
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