Thread by @josiahmortimer

Cummings' new job ad says: "We want to hire some VERY clever young people either straight out of university or recently out with with extreme curiosity and capacity for hard work."

Almost certainly age discrimination and in breach of civil service code
dominiccummings.com/2020/01/02/two…

Here's ACAS' (a key regulator in this area) advice on age discrimination #Cummings

*Civil service guidelines, not code.

Pretty hairy when it comes to the Equality Act too

Discriminating in favour of recent 'great university' graduates also seems to be circumventing the usual civil service equal opportunity guidelines

Strikes me as very dodgy that applications are being sent to a private gmail account - not a government email #Cummings

Comments in job ads favouring a certain age group are 'likely to be discriminatory' - ACAS #Cummings

This is very likely to be in breach of flexible working legislation and civil service recruitment guidelines #Cummings

Here's the government's own advice on age discrimination during recruitment #Cummings

The civil service recruitment strategy says: "We will continue efforts to create a working environment that values staff irrespective of age". Cummings' ad seems to breach this commitment

Here's the civil service management code on age discrimination, which Cummings appears to be breaching

Here's the official civil service advice on spads hiring. Seems pretty clear cut that Cummings cannot directly hire civil servants - so these would appear to be 'private' political hires

Government: We want to tackle 'one sided flexibility' in employment (response to Taylor Review below)

Cummings: "I will bin you within weeks if you don't fit"

A figure in employment law tells me - worryingly - that we're yet to see what the new government does with working practice policies, and whether they continue on the same path as May (which did see some gains in employment rights). Alarm bells ringing