Posted by
whoyg10370 on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:32:32 AM
Researchers from the National Centre for Social Research, commissioned
by the Department for Work and Pension (DWP), sent three different
applications for 987 actual vacancies between November 2008 and May
2009. Nine occupations were chosen, ranging from highly qualified
positions such as accountants and IT technicians to
pearl jewelry less well-paid positions such as care workers and sales assistants.
All the job vacancies were in the private, public and voluntary sectors
and were based in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, London
and Manchester. The report, to be released tomorrow, concludes that
there was no plausible explanation for the difference in treatment
found between white British and ethnic minority applicants other than
racial discrimination.
It also finds that public sector
employers were less likely to have discriminated on the grounds of race
than those in the private sector.
One reason for this
discrepancy, according to the conclusion, is the use of standard
application forms in the public sector which hide or disguise the
ethnicity of an applicant. The research is also understood to have
found that larger employers were less likely to discriminate than small
employers.
Researchers have refused to release the names of the
biwa pearl guilty employers, but it is expected that they will be contacted to let them know they had been targeted.
The report has been welcomed by senior race advisers as evidence of
discrimination in the job market. Iqbal Wahhab, chair of the Ethnic
Minority Advisory Group, which proposes policy changes for the
government on race and employment, said: "The evidence of the DWP
report is unquestionable – we live in a society where racial
discrimination systematically occurs and currently goes in the main
unchallenged." Wahhab, an entrepreneur, said that the employers should
not be "named and shamed" but persuaded to
cultured pearl jewelry change.