Filed under: Europe, United Kingdom, Airports, News
I'm all for equal opportunities, but St. Mary's Airport (Isle of Scilly) offering a job application form for an air traffic controller in braille is, for lack of a better word, retarded. It's a huge waste of time and money creating forms in braille for jobs the blind just cannot have, and questions the intelligence of those people making the rules and enforcing the "small print" on employment procedures.
According to this article, the airport defended itself by saying that they were "simply abiding by equal opportunity guidelines but the requirements for the job would be 20/20 vision, from this it can be concluded that a person who was blind or partially sighted would not have a chance of obtaining the job."
Errr...so the point of a braille form exactly? To avoid being penalized by the law? In fact, because they offered a "false" opportunity to a blind person who clearly cannot get the job, they should be penalized for being misinforming and misleading, no?
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