Submitted on Tuesday 14th February 2017
Published on Friday 24th February 2017
Current status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Signatures: 17
Tagged with
BBC ~ Citizens ~ Gender ~ UK ~ UK citizens
Make 'name blind' recruitment a legal requirement
The Equality Act 2010 made discrimination based on race, religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation illegal.
Yet employers routinely discriminate against those with a foriegn sounding name on their cvs despite them having identical qualifications to other candidates. This must end now.
A recent BBC report stated that candidates with an ‘English-sounding name’ could be offered three times the number of interviews than an applicant with a Muslim name with the same qualifications.
Similarly, those with African or Caribbean sounding names are equally discriminated against as are women:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/38751307?client=ms-android-orange-gb.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/34636464?client=ms-android-orange-gb.
This creates an unequal society for UK citizens.
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