What do you put for marital status on a CV if you not married..

[Jambo]

I wouln't put it on but I'm pretty sure your marital status is single. (unless you are divorced or separated)

 

[Haggisman]

Cohabiting, but as said, it's irrelevant to your ability to do the job.

 

[Le_Petit_Lapin]

Stick Divorced on and put in a wee note somewhere that the reason for the divorce was because you were too committed to your job.

 

[Dutch Guy]

'Unmarried, living together' or leave it out.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

"Unmarried, had to nullify her" ?

If you're not going to be conventional then you may as well say something of note

 

[Vix]

I wouln't put it on but I'm pretty sure your marital status is single. (unless you are divorced or separated)

Yeah, you're right. We only ask that info because we need it for payroll, and the amount of people that put 'engaged' or 'living with partner' is high. You are either single, married, or divorced.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Yeah, you're right. We only ask that info because we need it for payroll, and the amount of people that put 'engaged' or 'living with partner' is high. You are either single, married, or divorced.

In that case it should be a checkbox tick, not a free-text question. You're right, though, our Organisation is the same.

 

[Vix]

It should, maybe we just overestimate the intelligence of our employees

 

[aproctor]

Single is the correct response if you must put anything on there as you are not married and to be honest i would only bother putting those two, otherwise it just complicates matters.

 

[Yeggstry]

Yeah, you're right. We only ask that info because we need it for payroll, and the amount of people that put 'engaged' or 'living with partner' is high. You are either single, married, or divorced.

May I ask why this is relevant to a person's individual salary?

EDIT: I'm in the same position as the OP, but I'll be damned if I let a potential employer know what my marital status is before I take the job. Its not relevant to the industry I'm in (Software Developer) and unless the interviewer has a thing for me I'll not mention it

 

[AtlanticP]

In long term relationship or you could always just put free

 

[bigredshark]

May I ask why this is relevant to a person's individual salary?

EDIT: I'm in the same position as the OP, but I'll be damned if I let a potential employer know what my marital status is before I take the job. Its not relevant to the industry I'm in (Software Developer) and unless the interviewer has a thing for me I'll not mention it

Some employers might find it relevent in terms of judging charactor. If you're married you're more likely to be settled and more likely to stick with a job (statistically). If they're concerned about staff turnover it's an indicator.

I wouldn't put in on my CV but I'd tell them if I was asked, I don't think you'll get a lot of offers telling interviewers to mind their own business no matter how justified you are.

 

[Vix]

May I ask why this is relevant to a person's individual salary?

EDIT: I'm in the same position as the OP, but I'll be damned if I let a potential employer know what my marital status is before I take the job. Its not relevant to the industry I'm in (Software Developer) and unless the interviewer has a thing for me I'll not mention it

It's not relevant to salaries at all, it is only asked for Payroll, which is when the employee has been taken on and offered a salary.

The Revenue like to know this info so it has to be input onto the payroll system.

 

[monkeysmith]

Some employers might find it relevent in terms of judging charactor. If you're married you're more likely to be settled and more likely to stick with a job (statistically). If they're concerned about staff turnover it's an indicator.

Agree. I am engaged, so I put this on my CV. Like to think it shows I am looking for a stable, long term employment.

If single, or complicated, doubt I would put anything down. If it's for your CV, then nothing stopping you putting anything, doesn't need to be payroll specific, worry about that when you have the job.

 

[Grimgoth]

There is also Living with Defacto Partner that I've seen in some forms, in case you want to be more "technical" in your cv...

 

[Energize]

Although employers aren't allowed to ask, putting down single with no kids is going to be seen as a good thing by employers. As they don't have to worry about you taking time off work for your kids, and they know they can get all sorts of hours out of you. Having an employee go on maternity leave must be an employers worst nightmare!

 

[bigredshark]

Although employers aren't allowed to ask, putting down single with no kids is going to be seen as a good thing by employers.

Not always, makes you less tied down, more likely to move on.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Although employers aren't allowed to ask, putting down single with no kids is going to be seen as a good thing by employers. As they don't have to worry about you taking time off work for your kids, and they know they can get all sorts of hours out of you. Having an employee go on maternity leave must be an employers worst nightmare!

That would put your Organisation in a whole heap of bother, if proven.

 

[Energize]

That would put your Organisation in a whole heap of bother, if proven.

If what was proven?

It would be pretty much impossible to prove as far as I can see. No one even need mention it.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

That the Organisation is preferential to the following : "single", "without children", "no time needed for child caring duties", "any sort of hours", "maternity pay is a no-no" and uses that as a means to differentiate.

You know. Those type of legal things.

edit : I see you edited to ask not what could be proven but how it would be proven. Court of Law, normally.