Job Letter Complaint

Dear Flipside media

I am writing to inform you that your job description for the apprentice digital video production producer has several errors throughout the job description. The letter has several contractual errors and employment legislation errors. Work contracts should comply with confidentiality clauses and also exclusivity clauses. The exclusivity clause is an optional clause that requires both parties to keep the existence of the confidentiality agreement a secret. The confidentiality clause is a legal document that only allows the model to work for one agency, and not work for any other agencies. There have been several heard around the world where these two clauses have been broken. One of which was when a black worker (Emmanuel Obikwee) was laid off from an immigration office leaving only white British workers left there, Emmanuel was awarded over £65,000.

In this letter the equality act of 2010 is infringed. The equality act is when any discrimination against race, gender or age is illegal, this is to be considered when employing staff, cast and crew and when individuals, groups and related issues. It is infringed on your letter when you say that the age should be ‘Below 30’ which is age discrimination and also breaks said equality act. Also the last part of the employment details it says ‘Religious views: Christian’ which in my opinion is absolutely ludicrous. This statement breaks employment equality regulations (religion or belief) and discriminates heavily against people of other religious orientation.  Another part that draws my attention is where the salary says between ‘£15,000 – £35,000’. What strikes me about this statement is that there is a £20,000 gap between the two salaries. My question is what is the difference between earning £15000 and £35000? Will there be discrimination involved to differentiate between the two salaries? There are trade unions set up to make sure that the integrity of the trade is kept. I don’t think that the trade unions would look upon this salary statement kindly.

Also employment legislation may be a problem as you, the employer are responsible for the well being of your employees, this means that you are liable for any physical or emotional harm as well as any employee acts or omissions while under their employment. the content of the documentary could cause some emotional harm to your employees. if the employee believes that you are responsible for any social or physical they are entitled compensation as of the compulsory insurance act of 1969.
In the details of the job it concerns me because of the rather offensive material it could affect the codes of practice that are there to protect the consumer and the employee.  The next thing that disturbs me in the letter that there will be ‘re-enactments’. This jumps out at me as a massive problem as the main theme of the media text is rape! This will be extremely distressing to the audience and possibly the people involved on and off set and also infringes several rules in the obscene publications act.

The obscene publications act of 1959 is an  passed by parliament to make sure that media that has been deemed as obscene does not get shown to the general public in the UK and wales. This significantly improved the containment of obscene material on the television and I think that this documentary would be breaking this law.
Then once again I have to come back to the fact that it ‘religious views: Christian’ At this time in the media that could cause massive problems as different religious views other than Christian are already frowned upon so this would be another racial blow. Ridiculous statements such as this one could cause uproar in the UK as these groups have been stepped on already many times before.

The final element that strikes me as a bit strange is it says that this film/documentary will be screened to . This breaks many OFCOM codes as this will be screened to youths in a school this particularly violates the regulations to do with under eighteens and harm and offence. The ones that mostly apply to our violations are these

1.1: material that can seriously impair the physical, mental or moral state of people under 18 cannot be broadcast.

1.2: in the provision of services broadcasters must take all reasonable steps to protect people under eighteen. For television services, this is in addition to their obligations resulting from the audio-visual media services directive.

1.3: children must be protected by appropriate broadcasting schedules so they are protected from media that may be inappropriate for them.

Your job letter breaks all three of these regulations as you intend to show this media text to under eighteens. OFCOM exists because of the communications act  (2003) and also the broadcasting act (1990). It also dis-obeys the obscene publications act as the subject matter will be deemed too obscene to show to school children.
 I think that the publication would be given a 15 if it was given to the BBFC to regulate this is because the documentary will most likely have these three bullet points as content:
'strong verbal references to sex'
'sexual nudity'
'brief scenes of sexual or verbal references to sexual violence violence'
 The rating of 15 would be an inappropriate rating to show to school pupils.

Yours sincerely,

James Reeve