My company has a contract with a major bank which stipulates that when we take on people to work on thier premises they have to have lived in the country for 5 years so they can be checked out and have 5 years employment references. I have explained to my boss that this is discriminatory but it seems that retaining the contract is more important to them than people bringing cliams againts the company. when we advertise our jobs we state and I quote “please provide names and addresses of previous employers for the last 5 years” I know we are wrong by doing this because this then discriminate agianst someone that has just left school for instance. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we can re-word this. What we require is that applicants have a five year chackable history. Also are we right in asking people that they have to have lived in this country for 5 years before we can offer them a job.

Your advise will be greatly appreciated.
SK