Suella Braverman - sacked as Home Secretary (p394)

I'm With Stupid said:
Yeah, there were studies where they send out CVs with 'foreign sounding' names and they get asked to interviews massively less than 'British sounding' ones, even when all other details on the CV are identical. Why do you think the laws are necessary in the first place? Surely every company would always want to hire the best person for the job? But in reality, it doesn't work like that. I literally had a friend experience this first hand, admittedly in Vietnam, but applying for a British company that claimed an 'equal opportunities' policy. She applied for the job initially with her Vietnamese name and wasn't offered an interview. She then applied again for the same job using her American-sounding middle name and was immediately called in for an interview.

There's also a big study here if you want to read it about the wider issues. But some of the key points from the executive summary:

- ethnic minorities are more likely to be overqualified for the role they're in, but white employees are still more likely to be promoted
- ethnic minorities are more likely to be underemployed than white people (i.e. have fewer hours that they want)

Now obviously some of that can be explained by recent immigrants, who may lack the language skills to match their other qualifications and thus be underemployed. But when you combine it with the various studies that have been done, it's pretty clear that there is still discrimination in hiring.

Here's one done in America, but it incorporates data for various countries including the UK. Around 90 studies, mostly involving applying to real jobs with fake CVs and deliberately including racial markers in the CVs that would indicate someone's ethnic background. And then comparing that to CVs with no racial markers. Only France has improved since the 80s, and that only brought it into line with other countries from a poor starting point.
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Thanks. I'll have a look at this when I get a minute. :)
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
www.theguardian.com

Undercover job hunters reveal huge race bias in Britain's workplaces

Civil servants created false identities to send CVs to hundreds of employers in sting to uncover discrimination
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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It's a point that's part of my bigger argument. It's wrong. And it's absolutely against the law. That article is from 2009.

Edit. There are plenty of articles available, on both sides

www.telegraph.co.uk

Civil servant who blew the whistle on political activism wins £100,000 settlement

Anna Thomas raised the alarm over a number on concerns, including a police jobseekers' event that excluded white men
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
 
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