tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5892199.post-7959634826341446642009-06-28T10:24:00.003+01:002009-06-28T14:35:31.301+01:00So - the <a href="http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1195995/.html">Mail on Sunday is sounding off</a> about some of the work the Government is undertaking to prove or disprove the theory that discrimination exists in the form of applicants for jobs getting eliminated because they have names that give away their ethnicity, gender or age.<br /><br />Apparently the Department of Work and Pensions sent out two thousand applications using false names to judge the response. The Mail characterises it as to see 'if they are racist'. And how dare they waste businesses' time. And the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">CBI</span> joins in. How dare they etc.<br /><br />Well - I say well done Government. I am glad they are carrying on testing my idea about <a href="http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/06/anonymous-job-applications-ending.htm">anonymous job applications</a> because if my theory is proved that by removing names and replacing them with a number on applications we end up with people not being discarded from the first sift of applications because their name shows they are black, female or old - that will be a very, very good thing. And it won't cost business anything virtually.<br /><br />And if the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">CBI</span> are confident that I'm wrong? Well, they shouldn't be worried about evidence being gathered to find out!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5892199-795963482634144664?l=www.lynnefeatherstone.org%2Fblog.htm' alt='' /></div>Lynne Featherstone MPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08454919891088816178noreply@blogger.com13