Submitted on Friday 19th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 21st July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legally require that job applicant names are removed from applications form.
We want ‘Name Blind’ recruitment to be a legal requirement for all private and public companies for all job roles. The aim is to reduce any unconscious bias of applicants on the basis of ethnicity or gender at the initial stages of the recruitment and selection process.
Research by the UK government published in 2009 found that employers were much more likely to offer interviews to candidates with white-sounding names than those with non-white-sounding ones, even though their applications were identical. The name of a job applicant does not serve any purpose and does not hold relevance to the applicants suitability to be shortlisted for any job position.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/331511
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