Response letter

To whom it may concern,

The reason i am writing to you is because your job advertisement is against normal regulation, and i am going to be pointing out what you are doing wrong that you can change it. This job post discriminates many ethnic, age and religious groups. you also have used the small print wrong since it contains information that is very important for the job role instead of explaining it in the main job description. This could be bad since someone may not be able to read this or they might not see it and will completely misunderstand some of the post.

You job advertisement infringes The Equality Act (2010) which states"Discrimination on grounds of race, gender or age is illegal. This is likely to be a consideration when employing staff, cast and crew and when individuals, groups and related issues are depicted on screen." this has been violated because you are limiting your job to both sexes under a certain age and to a certain religion. This is not acceptable since anyone over the age of 30 with different religious beliefs can do the exact same job as someone with the qualities you decided where important. This is all to do with equal opportunities where the employer should aim to recruit fairly and they should produce a codes of practice that can be used as evidence that they comply with The Equality Act (2010). These codes of practice are not the law. However, they exists to protect the consumer or citizen and have a powerful role in the industry. you must also remember to protect your employees. This can be done through a trade union. In case you were wondering what a Trade Union is here is the definition: "Trade unions exist to protect the rights and interests of workers ". Through a trade union you will be able to protect your employees rights and interests. In order to get the befits of a trade union you must pay yearly fees. This is a good investment because it will make your employees feel safe. The trade union will also allow you to make contacts which can help you out in the future if you need them.

Paragraph 3: Ethical issues

Like I have already stated Codes of Practice are not a part of the law, and the sole reason they exist is to protect the consumer and citizen. This will end up avoiding any legal issues if they have been followed correctly. the way the legal issues can be avoided is by passing this over to the applicants so that they are fully aware of the Codes of  Practice that your business follows. In your post to require an applicant you stated they must be christian in order to put forward the beliefs of the Christians into the the proposed video. This can be very risky because the way that people and a subject can be portrayed might cause many problems. the problems will be caused from other religious groups since they will have their beliefs on the subject too. This is why the video should not be based from one religious groups views but from all of the views. maybe even keep it generalised to avoid these sort of problems. if you were to do the video from a religious stand point then it may cause trouble for individuals and maybe a group of people. for example the media have represented young adults and teenagers to be threatening, also they are exaggerated so that people will look down upon them. This made the elderly population hate and be afraid of youngsters due to poor representations. This will cause many social problems.

Paragraph 4: Legal issues

Under the regulations of Ofcom no persons under the age of 18 should be subjected to anything including harm and offence and since you have stated that your video is going to be on rape it is very hard to make it so that young people wont be subjected to anything bad from this. In case you are not aware Ofcom is Britain's media regulator and is is required by The communications Act (2003) and The Broadcasting act (1990) to draw up the code that they now currently enforce. These are the standards for british broadcasting and if these aren't followed it can result in the video being banned or restricted. Lawyers may have to check your video is it is deemed obscene in case it will infringe The Obscene Publications Act (1959). Any factors such as age range of the audience and the time of production could affect whether the material is deemed obscene. The British Board of film Classification (BBFC) is an independent body which classifies films and videos in terms of age suitability due to the harmful and sensitive matter that your video will talk about it will be given a certification of 18+ . This would mean that the video would have to be shown after watershed if it isn't the video will be removed from public viewing and maybe banned completely. When using this video Intellectual Property might play a factor in trying to get it published. IP lets people own the work they create. This is a huge issue if you are going to be using popular music and images you haven't acquired yourself because you may have to pay in order to use them.

Yours sincerely,

Henry Chard