Taleo Assists UK Companies With Age Discrimination Compliance
Talent management technology leader provides software support and specialist advice to UK companies to help them prepare for October 1st deadline
LONDON – July 20, 2006 – Taleo, the leading provider of on demand talent management solutions, today announced a consulting service offering to help UK companies comply with the impending Employment (Age) Regulations legislation. UK organisations have less than three months until one of the UK’s most important pieces of employment legislation since the 1970s is enforced on October 1, 2006. Taleo’s consulting service is intended to help UK organisations comply with the new regulations by establishing technology processes that reflect organizations’ compliant workflows and policies.
With discrimination claims reaching millions of pounds, failure to meet the Age Regulations deadline could prove very costly for UK businesses. The legislation presents a series of complex challenges for businesses in areas such as recruitment. With less than three months to go, UK businesses that are not familiar with the new laws could face heavy fines and damage to their employment brand.
Online recruitment technology can play a major part in helping businesses implement the appropriate new procedures. Taleo Enterprise 7, the company’s on demand talent management solution, enables organisations to assess, recruit, develop and align their workforce and facilitate compliance with the new legal requirements for recruitment. With Taleo, businesses can control and monitor the recruitment process, to help ensure that hiring decisions are based on skills and capabilities rather than age related information.
Taleo help companies achieve fully compliant recruitment procedures. By switching off fields in the online application process such as date of birth and de-selecting fields such as graduation dates and start dates, businesses can help ensure that pre-screening or dis-qualification based on age are eliminated, thereby strengthening full compliance.
Taleo has also launched the UK Age Compliance Plan to advise companies on implications for their recruitment processes, and the configuration of their recruitment systems. Taleo’s UK Age Compliance Plan is a consulting service provided by Taleo experts and is available to all UK businesses regardless of size or sector and whether or not they are already a Taleo customer. The UK Age Compliance Plan helps companies to:
- Eliminate discriminatory references from job advertisement
- Change pre-screening and disqualification questions to enable compliance
- Ensure that all selection processes are non-discriminatory
- Adjust data retention policies appropriately
- Identify critical actions and steps to execute before October 1
Taleo EMEA Marketing Director Chris Phillips says, “The clock is ticking for UK businesses to ensure they are fully compliant with the new legislation. Taleo has all the capabilities necessary for recruitment compliance and with our Age Compliance Plan, Taleo’s experts can help ensure that the implications of the new legislation are understood and systems are correctly configured for UK organisations.”
Taleo Enterprise 7 and the UK Age Compliance Plan are available to all UK organisations today. For further information, please call +44 (0)1753 272170.
About Taleo
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) delivers on demand talent management solutions that enable organisations of all sizes to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforce for improved business performance. Taleo’s customers use its suite of solutions to improve their talent management processes to reduce the time and costs associated with these processes and to enhance the quality, productivity and satisfaction of their workforces. Taleo currently has more than 630 corporate customers with approximately 588,000 registered users who use our services to fill positions in almost 100 countries. For more information visit www.taleo.com.
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