Remove Ethnicity question on all job applications.

Rejected 16 signatures

What the petition asks

Review the need to identify any potential Job applicants race, by requesting this information on job applications, this places minority’s in a position to be unfairly treated and discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity.

Black Britons and those of south Asian origin face “shocking” discrimination in the labour market at levels unchanged since the late 1960s, research has found.
A study by experts based at the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, found applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds had to send 80% more applications to get a positive response from an employer than a white person of British origin.
A linked study by the same researchers, comparing their results with similar field experiments dating back to 1969, found discrimination against black Britons and those of south Asian origin – particularly Pakistanis – unchanged over almost 50 years.

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

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

Key facts

Signatures 16

Status Rejected

Rejected 22 Jul 2020

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