Legally require that job applicant names are removed from applications form.

Rejected 15 signatures

What the petition asks

We want ‘Name Blind’ recruitment to be a legal requirement for all private and public companies for all job roles. The aim is to reduce any unconscious bias of applicants on the basis of ethnicity or gender at the initial stages of the recruitment and selection process.

Research by the UK government published in 2009 found that employers were much more likely to offer interviews to candidates with white-sounding names than those with non-white-sounding ones, even though their applications were identical. The name of a job applicant does not serve any purpose and does not hold relevance to the applicants suitability to be shortlisted for any job position.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Require all companies to remove personal information during application process

We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality

Timeline

19 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
21 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 15

Status Rejected

Rejected 21 Jul 2020

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