Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Letter to Flipside media.

Dear Flipside media I am writing to inform you that I have read the job application and I think it is very explicit in the ways you are attempting to promote certain things in your company. This letter is going to state what is wrong with your application form and how wrong it is due to the many laws and rights people have to this country, after you have read this I hope you improve and change the application form to stop many complaints coming through. Firstly let me talk to you about the contract, it isn't right to put a big gap in-between the hours (10-45 hours) because then the employee will not know when he/she is working and the fact that it is variable which means it is liable to change, that isn’t fair on the worker because it isn’t a fixed time meaning the pay each month would be different each month/year which could also mean that someone could work the same job as you and get paid more for the same amount of hours which is unfair. That brings me to my next point which is the pay, because the pay also has such a large gap between it means that the person is entitled to know how much they are owed for the hours they work having such a big gap can mean many complaints to you and could even cause strikes to cause out in the company. The last point I am going to make about the contract is that the contract breaks the Equality act of 2010 because of the act you are not able to request a male/female under the age of 30 because anyone above the age has equal rights to get the job and if you do not hire them because of their age its breaking the law and you could get sued a lot of money. You had also broke the equality act of 2010 by saying “Female victims and male offenders” which is putting male and female’s into stereotypes and it is wrong because there are some female offenders as well and male victims. Also the trade union only covers employee’s and not applicant just like me, if I were to make the video and someone I was interviewing or myself got hurt I would not be covered by anything in employee’s right as I am not working for you yet and I could get in trouble or even badly injured. Applicants can use Code of practice which isn’t actually part of the law but they do exists to protect the consumer or citizen, they applicant can also use Policies and procedures to avoid legal issue because the employer is responsible for making the policies and procedures that have to be specific to individual institutions. Codes of practice are good to promote practice to avoid legal issues further in the job. The video you have requested is going to be wrong for the company because if the media found it and they portrayed it on the television it would become bad representation to your company and to the religion because the individuals (victims) and groups (Offenders) will be targeted to be seen as bad even though they have done nothing wrong in the interviews apart from feel the emotions they did that day. Thanks to the media social concerns will be made if any of the offenders and young or have a certain style to them, the media will portray big bald men (example) as all of them are offenders because they saw one in the video so that makes all of them so now any nice big bald man on the street will be feared by young woman everywhere and he will wonder why If any under the age of 18 is working for you because you had hired them the Ofcom broadcasting code is protecting them and harm and offence this would take action if any teenager had “You should interview teenagers and other individuals who had been affected by the topic” that would affect the broadcasting code in the way how it states “This guidance is provided to assist broadcasters in interpreting and applying the Broadcasting Code.” The only reason Ofcom exists is because of the communications act in 2003 and the broadcasting act in 1990. It is disgusting how I have to mention the Obscene Publications Act in 1959 because of how you would like re-enactments of the horrifying events I will not go into much detail but it is wrong for the events to even be brought up but to re-enact them is plain wrong! The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) would mark this either an 18 or a R18 and it would be because of the video will be filled with too many thing such as very strong violence, frequent strong language and / or very strong language, strong portrayals of sexual activity and scene of sexual violence. We wouldn’t even be allowed to show the video at the high schools for children to watch because they would only be 15 and at that age and 18 isn’t suitable even with parents’ consent to them. The small print at the bottom of the application form is completely wrong and against the law because you are not allowed to promote religion and your also kind of bribing them with £20 pounds or up to for making the video and changing teenagers lives just because of a video, they have their own choice, we will also have to get copyright for the music we use if we want to use music the teenagers know and like. It is against the law to promote this religious view and you could get arrested or company shut down. Dearest Regards, Sam Read

1 comment:

  1. Sam,

    Where are the paragraphs? Do you think someone would read a letter that was just one huge solid block of text? Your first job will be to go through and format this correctly please.

    You have made some very good points here but it is jumbled - using paragraphs and more full stops will help to sort this out though. I have awarded a pass already and you do not need to do a huge amount to raise it to a merit but you will need to quote legislation and broadcasting code. You should follow the structure on the back of the job advert and then when you have a point to make, quote the advert AND THEN ALSO quote law/code to say why you think it is wrong.

    Do this and you will be looking at a merit.

    Good start Sam, well done.

    EllieB

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