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Originally Posted by Shasown
The questions about ethnicity should now be on a separate form from the job application and are actually only monitored for statistical purposes in just about all jobs. Unfortunately they are now a legal requirement.
In some areas of the public sector they are used to ensure a certain percentage of ethnic minorities are pushed through the initial screening. This is actually an illegal practice which is overlooked because of the imposed requirements set by Europe and Westminster.
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Exactly right. So called "positive" discrimination, is still "discrimination" whichever way people want to dress it up.