Two personal reflections might be appropriate.
I worked in the Careers Service in Merseyside and may have been in the Bootle (see image) office when this occurred but I am not sure. An employer rang, wanting to advertise a vacancy, but specified that he did not want to interview anyone from Bootle. I informed him that I could not possibly accept a vacancy on that basis so he said that he would fill it himself and rang off. I recorded the conversation and informed my line manager of it. Probably there was no further contact with that employer but our service needed to know that he had rung and said that.
When working in Lancashire, I visited a motor vehicle training scheme that placed apprentices with employers. I was told that employers were reluctant to accept Asian trainees. When I said that our service could get those employers into a lot of trouble if that were known, I was told that the employers would not say it in so many words.
Two (in my opinion) wrong views:
an employer should be free to be as prejudiced as he likes;
an employer should be forced to accept a quota of Asian applicants even if they are unsuitable.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
MY view is that an employer should not be coerced into being less prejudiced. Let more successful employers who don't share his views simply do better at their work than he is.
I agree with the second of the two views you consider wrong.
Sean
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