Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-05 Thread Egor Shipovalov
If the employer is already a Tier 2 sponsor (many IT firms are), then it's a quick and straightforward procedure. If not, they need to become one, which is a few simple steps in theory, but in practice requires a lawyer. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Smylers wrote: > Egor Shipovalov writes: > >

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-05 Thread Smylers
Egor Shipovalov writes: > CV below. > > Citizen and resident of Russian Federation currently visiting London. > The employer will have to sponsor a work permit under the terms for > Tier 2. What does that involve? Smylers -- Watch fiendish TV quiz 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-05 Thread mirod
Raphael Mankin wrote: It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and then decides not to return to work. Adding on to this advertising, time to review CVs, time to interview and so on, the cost of recruitment can itself run int

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 16:58, Philip Potter wrote: > get pregnant. I don't know. What I want to see is some real data > showing what the difference in cost is to hire a woman of childbearing > age who may or may not have any plans for getting pregnant, compared > to hiring a woman who one knows for su

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 18:14, Raphael Mankin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:58 +, Philip Potter wrote: >> What I want to see is some real data >> showing what the difference in cost is to hire a woman of childbearing >> age who may or may not have any plans for getting pregnant, compared >> to

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:11 +, James Laver wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Dominic Thoreau > wrote: > > > >[snip] > > Some of my over-40 friends assume that a number of jobs they've been > declined for are about age, but not in the usual manner. People of > that age bracket tend to h

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:58 +, Philip Potter wrote: > On 4 February 2010 16:29, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:48 +, Philip Potter wrote: > >> On 4 February 2010 14:48, Raphael Mankin wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote: > >> >> Under t

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 4/2/10 16:29, Raphael Mankin wrote: It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and then decides not to return to work. Actually, an employer is only obligated by law to pay statutory maternity pay. There is a legal obligatio

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Abigail
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 05:02:05PM +, Philip Potter wrote: > On 4 February 2010 16:50, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > > On 4 February 2010 16:29, Raphael Mankin wrote: > >> > >> It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets > >> pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and th

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Denny
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:02 +, Philip Potter wrote: > Statutory paternity leave is up to 2 weeks. There may be more > generous employers but the law does not require it. Right now yes, but looking forward, wrong: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/jan/28/fathers-six-months-paternity-leave

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Dominic Thoreau
On 4 February 2010 16:50, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > > These days aren't parental leave rights extended to a fairly generous > degree towards the father as well? (looks it up) Ah, right, the govt. *promised* to change it to six months, but never actually did anything. About par really. -- Better t

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread James Laver
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > > These days aren't parental leave rights extended to a fairly generous > degree towards the father as well? > IIRC if the mother wants to return to work the father can take > parental leave with very similar conditions (of course, since I h

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Denny
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:29 +, Raphael Mankin wrote: > It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets > pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and then decides not to return > to work. The government is in the process of making it possible for the maternity and paternit

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 16:29, Raphael Mankin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:48 +, Philip Potter wrote: >> On 4 February 2010 14:48, Raphael Mankin wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote: >> >> Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to >>

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 16:50, Dominic Thoreau wrote: > On 4 February 2010 16:29, Raphael Mankin wrote: >> >> It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets >> pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and then decides not to return >> to work. Adding on to this  advertising, time

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Dominic Thoreau
On 4 February 2010 16:29, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets > pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and then decides not to return > to work. Adding on to this  advertising, time to review CVs, time to > interview and so on, the cost

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Zbigniew Lukasiak
Since you are in London now - maybe you could come to todays social? I don't have much experience here - but I would imagine that it should be good for networking. Cheers, Zbigniew On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Egor Shipovalov wrote: > CV below. Willing to consider support engineering positio

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:48 +, Philip Potter wrote: > On 4 February 2010 14:48, Raphael Mankin wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote: > >> Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to > >> discriminate against you because you are married.

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 14:48, Raphael Mankin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote: >> Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to >> discriminate against you because you are married.  This means that they >> cannot ask you about this during intervi

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote: > Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to > discriminate against you because you are married. This means that they > cannot ask you about this during interviews, etc. That may well be so but the fact remains th

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Bob MacCallum
Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to discriminate against you because you are married. This means that they cannot ask you about this during interviews, etc. Your voluntary disclosure of this information makes me slightly uncomfortable but I doubt there is a law

Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Egor Shipovalov
CV below. Willing to consider support engineering positions if the company is good. Money isn't the number one priority. = Egor Shipovalov Tel.: +44 07780 211 416, +7 985 233 1841 E-mail: kogdaugo...@gmail.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/EgorShipovalov Homepage: http://shipovalo