That Alan Sugar, he’s hilariously un-pc sometimes (actually perhaps I’m un-pc for using the word hilarious there, sorry). I’m not sure how he avoids the backlash your average boss would get from some of the comments he makes.
From the Raising Kids newsletter (bit of a giveaway that I have children) I read that:
Sir Alan believes that employers should be able to ask women about their intentions regarding having children and says; ‘Companies have no divine duty to help with childcare. Companies employ people. It’s the Government’s responsibility to provide childcare. You pay a person a salary and they cut their cloth accordingly.’
In an interview with The Times he makes it clear how he feels managers should respond in the current climate in which they’re not allowed to ask potential female employees whether they’re intending on having children: ‘That’s the bottom line, you’re not allowed to ask so it’s easy – just don’t employ them.’
It’s not an issue you need worry about when the candidate (as recently happened to a recruitment friend of mine) indicates they have no children at present and then asks “so, what’s the childcare situation here”. Don’t think that’s what Natasha Kaplinski did, do you?
How does he get away with it?!
LOL, love to see “Sir A” stick his foot squarely in his mouth again, lets face it, he just does it for the PR though. I seem to remember he said something along the same lines last year.