{"id":6748,"date":"2009-10-18T06:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T23:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/undercover-job-hunters-reveal-huge-race-bias-in-britains-workplaces\/"},"modified":"2016-03-04T10:43:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T03:43:18","slug":"undercover-job-hunters-reveal-huge-race-bias-in-britains-workplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/undercover-job-hunters-reveal-huge-race-bias-in-britains-workplaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover job hunters reveal huge race bias in Britain's workplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCivil servants created false identities to send CVs to hundreds of employers in sting to uncover discriminationA government sting operation targeting hundreds of employers across Britain has uncovered widespread racial discrimination against workers with African and Asian names.Researchers sent nearly 3,000 job applications under false identities in an attempt to discover if employers were discriminating against jobseekers with foreign names. Using names recognisably from three different communities \u2013 Nazia Mahmood, Mariam Namagembe and Alison Taylor \u2013 false identities were created with similar experience and qualifications. Every false applicant had British education and work histories. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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