Introduce mandatory name-blind recruitment for all UK employers

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

To combat systemic racism and implicit bias in recruitment, we want name-blind recruitment to be made mandatory for all UK employers, given that name-blind recruitment is already implemented by the civil service, and name-blind submissions are a standardised practice across all UK universities.

An overwhelming amount of evidence shows that names which suggest an applicant is of a non-white ethnicity are much less likely to receive a call back than names which imply that the applicant is White British. In the recent GEMM Project Study by CSI Nuffield College, Oxford, in Britain it was found that applicants with non-white sounding names had to make 60% more applications to achieve the same success rate as those with white sounding names, despite having identical applications otherwise.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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Timeline

11 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
22 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 22 Jul 2020

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