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Published by reece johnson, 2019-06-19 04:33:30

letter

letter

11/01/2019

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to you about the application for the job for
filming the document to do with ‘No Means No’ campaign. I

think the idea of the document is an awful idea and I
am writing this letter to go through the reasons why
you will never get anyone to do this job.

The requirements to apply for the job breaks the
equality act. It does this by making anyone above
the age of 30, unable to apply, which is breaking on
the laws to do with the equality act. As you can see
the equality act covers age discrimination and with
the age restriction on the job, this will fall against the act
making legal issues on applying. Another problem is the pay
and employees’ rights. Due to no sharing the exact pay or
time they will be working, they may need other work to
make up for the lack of pay, for example you have said 10 to 45 hours, if you get the lower amount
of hours you will mostly likely to get lower pay and need a part time job to make up money for bills
and food, but you guys have said that you can’t apply for another job in the nature. This is known as
exclusivity clause and can be more problems and go against rights of the employee. Trade Unions
are a helpful organisation as they negotiate agreements with employers on pay and conditions,
discussing big changes like large scale redundancy, discussing members’ concerns with employers
and going with members to disciplinary and grievance meetings. All this means that these trade
unions are looking out for workers and they will stand with them in sticky situation, like a lawsuit
goes against them or the money paid and/or work time is unclear, they will come in defence of the
worker and help them out or give them the best possible solution, something that should be taken
as your pay and work time looks unclear they is a big gap in both money paid ‘£15,000 to £35,000
per annum’ and work time of ’10 to 45 hours per week’, people need to know if it is a part time job
or full job and if they can pay the bills and be able to afford food as well.

In the letter it says ‘female victims and male offenders’, the representation of young
males is not all true. The representation of young males you put across is that all
males are violent and always the offenders, the ones who always break the law. I
think this will get negative backlash due to this and to top it off, the documentary
also implies that young females are always victims, once again this is not true and a
false representation of young people. This can cause social corners with the
representation the document has with eh subject matter the document has.

The document has major faults with the representation and the lack of info about hours and pay, but
the main problem with the document is, this breaks multiple rules set by Ofcom. First, the religious
aspect you want implementing could break 4.4 (Religious programmes must not seek to promote
religious views or beliefs by stealth) but will break 4.5 (Religious programmes on television services
or BBC ODPS must not seek recruits. You state that ‘as we are a Christian lead organisation, you
should promote the ideals of the Christian faith’, this does not apply to specialist religious television
services. Religious programmes on radio services may seek recruits). Due to wanting ideals that
promote Christian faith, this document will be taken down or banned due to the promotion to
Christian faith, this would have to be left out as it will be pointless to make as it would get banned

before getting to the target audience. One have stated that you want ‘male offenders’
for your documentary, but with not make sure that you are not breaking rule 2.1
(Generally accepted standards must be applied to the contents of television and radio
services and BBC ODPS so as to provide adequate protection for members of the public
from the inclusion in such services of harmful and/or offensive material). To avoid this,
you will need to blur the face out and make sure not to state the names of the
offenders and even the victims to be on the safe side. But the worst problem you have
with this document is the age group you want this to be shown to. ‘a short
documentary that can be shown to children at high school’. This is very big problem as
the you would be breaking 1.3 ‘Children must also be protected by appropriate
scheduling from material that is unsuitable for them. Although scheduling requirements in this
section are not relevant to the provision of programmes on demand, the BBC must put in place
appropriate measures on BBC ODPS that provide equivalent protection for children.’ Ofcom sees
children being under 15, this is the age of high school kids and it will be banned to show this to the
target audience making your document a waste of time to make. You will have to change the nature,
remove the religious message and make the money and time of working clearer to avoid lawsuits.
The last problem with the document is the music choice, for £20 I could get some music, but the
music you want will have to be popular and current as it is targeting young people, the problem with
this is that music for £20 will not cover the popular trend so that will not be good, and the popular
trending music will cost more like £20,000 to be able to use in the video and £20 is only 0.1% of the
price, so the person going in will have to be rich. The only other lay would be to steal the song and
that would be illegal, so no matter what you would do, the music will not be want you want, or be
too expensive for a normal person to afford.

Overall, the document needs to be changed a lot so then it
is fair on the person you want to hire, not stereotyping
young people and for the document not to break copyright
or Ofcom rules.

Yours sincerely

RJ

P.S want more info on Ofcom look at these links below

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/section-one-
protecting-under-eighteens

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/section-two-
harm-offence

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/section-four-
religion

Info on trade unions https://www.gov.uk/join-trade-union


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