Positive discrimination recruitment laws introduced
Equalities minister Harriet Harman has set out plans that will allow companies to use positive discrimination to boost recruitment equality.
Under the proposals, companies will be able to favour female and ethnic minority candidates when recruiting for sales jobs and other positions.
Commenting on the propels, Dianah Worman, diversity adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) described the proposals as incoherent.
She said: "Employers will have to [show] evidence [of] what they are doing and why.
"They will have to show people have gone through the same recruitment process."
However, companies will not be forced to positively discriminate.
Ms Harman pointed to figures which showed that women still earn only 87 per cent of what men earn on average.
Among part time workers, this drops to less than 40 per cent.
The changes will also be used to counter age discrimination in the workplace.
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Filed: 27-06-2008
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