Job Response Letter

Dear Flipside Media

                                      I am writing to you to explaining all the legal and contractual issues with the job advertisement that you have written. I’d like to make points on all the faults you have made during writing this letter. A contract is a signed document that is to do with employment and is intended to be done by law. An Exclusivity clause is something that an employee can use when working for a company and cannot do Freelance work for anyone else. A confidentiality clause is a paragraph within a contract that a business is allowed to keep confidential and may not be given to other people that do not work in the company.

To start with the requirements for this job role are rather specific which does not comply with The Equality Act. The Equality Act states that you’re not allowed to ask for someone under a certain age, this is not allowed to be stated in a job description as this is discrimination. Also the salary for this job is very broad and could fall short of the Equal pay act 1970. You cannot pay someone a different sum of money for doing the same job as an employee who you had before your new one or if you have two people doing the same job at the same time as that is unfair on the employee who is getting paid less for doing the same work. A trade union is there to fight for the rights of workers, but you have to be a member of one of these unions to get the benefits of its work. An example of a Trade Union is BECTU which has a freelance membership which will cost about £10 every month. All so in your letter you say you are looking for a Christian person for this job, this is not allowed as you are not by law allowed to promote your faith to anyone and are not allowed to force it upon anyone.

With regards idea for your video for a date rape campaign that you’re planning to show to high school students, as you said 'Plan and produce a short documentary that can be shown to children at high school promoting the No Means No date rape campaign'. You can’t do that because there are ethical issues with this and does not agree with the Codes of Practice. Also showing teenagers that have been affected or have been the assaulter, give a bad image to demographics that concern these people, also teenagers have been portrayed by the press as being bad enough and don’t really need you worsening their case. You also mentioned that you plan to have re-enactments for this video and that is just absolutely wrong.You will also have to deal with all the different legal issues like the fact that under 18’s are protected by Ofcom. Also the Communications Act states that Ofcom’s primary purpose is to make sure that the interests of the people are always there such as promotion during the broadcast of a show.

Looking at the nature of this video I would rate this video as a 15 as it will include

•  strong violence/ language
•  scenes of sexual activity
•  strong references to sex
•  nudity
•  discriminative language

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and would hope you know go about fixing all the issues that I have stated during the writing of this letter.

Yours sincerely

Andrew Davis