Workplace Discrimination

[Blood Lust]

Hi Everyone

If you were Polish, Irish, Asian or African would you drop your surname in the belief that it stops you being called forward for job interviews?

Please, I want to hear about immigrants experiences not those from British people.

BL

 

[Rasta Pickles]

Hi Everyone

If you were Polish, Irish, Asian or African would you drop your surname in the belief that it stops you being called forward for job interviews?

Please, I want to hear about immigrants experiences not those from British people.

BL

Given the ridiculous numbers of Eastern European natives employed in the UK, I'd have thought a cv with the name Agnieska Tomaszewski on it would be a plus?

 

[Blood Lust]

Given the ridiculous numbers of Eastern European natives employed in the UK, I'd have thought a cv with the name Agnieska Tomaszewski on it would be a plus?

Some firms like foreign employees but do all firms?

Do they discriminate it times of recession to look after their own kind first?

 

[Rasta Pickles]

Some firms like foreign employees but do all firms?

Do they discriminate it times of recession to look after their own kind first?

There are apparently 1.2m Eastern Europeans employed here these days (Government figures) and fair play to them even allowing for their apparent propensity to criminal activity.

So I very much doubt there is any discrimination going on.

 

[DavidAshdown]

There are apparently 1.2m Eastern Europeans employed here these days (Government figures) and fair play to them even allowing for their apparent propensity to criminal activity.

So I very much doubt there is any discrimination going on.

How do the government know !!

 

[ethical PR]

Hi Everyone

If you were Polish, Irish, Asian or African would you drop your surname in the belief that it stops you being called forward for job interviews?

Please, I want to hear about immigrants experiences not those from British people.

BL

Why? I'm sure if you want you can reference research the research that demonstrates of discrimination in employment

 

[GraemeL]

Quote "Given the ridiculous numbers of Eastern European natives employed in the UK?

There are apparently 1.2m Eastern Europeans employed here and fair play to them even allowing for their apparent propensity to criminal activity." end quote

Its good to see that on both occasions the reference made to EE's says that they are in employment here, though clearly there is some angst by the OP.

What mattered to me as an employer was attitude. A laid back approach infering an individual has a right to a job because they were born here wins no prizes nowadays.

Someone who is prepared to move country to find work is demonstrating some determination.

G

 

[FirstClassVirtualOffice]

We have a lot of Polish workers in Doncaster because the airport here has daily flights to and from Poland and the type of work is warehousing/logistics, telesales and office work close by, and the only comments we ever hear from employers who have Polish staff are that they are excellent workers and they wish their British workers were just as reliable and hard working.

 

[Vectis]

Hi Everyone

If you were Polish, Irish, Asian or African would you drop your surname in the belief that it stops you being called forward for job interviews?

Please, I want to hear about immigrants experiences not those from British people.

BL

But it works the other way as well. I doubt if I'd even get as far as an interview for a job at the local curry house unless I changed my surname on my CV.

But probably not what you want to hear.

 

[WJP]

I'm surprised it's taken this long to get picked up like that in the media, I remember reading an academic study at least a couple of years ago which quantitatively demonstrated the same thing.

 

[Rasta Pickles]

Quote "Given the ridiculous numbers of Eastern European natives employed in the UK?

There are apparently 1.2m Eastern Europeans employed here and fair play to them even allowing for their apparent propensity to criminal activity." end quote

Its good to see that on both occasions the reference made to EE's says that they are in employment here, though clearly there is some angst by the OP.

What mattered to me as an employer was attitude. A laid back approach infering an individual has a right to a job because they were born here wins no prizes nowadays.

Someone who is prepared to move country to find work is demonstrating some determination.

G

No angst here, a Polish guy who used to live next door to me told me it was "an honour and a privilege" to have a job and I have taken his attitude on board. He also admitted that many of his kith and kin were prone to criminal behaviour because that was part and parcel of their life back home......and having nearly had my life ended by a Polish lorry driver climbing one of the hills out of Dover, I can well believe him.

However, it is a matter of fact that 1.2m of them employed here IS ridiculous when there are 3m of the indigenous population unemployed.

Why 3m of the indigenous population are unemployed is obviously a matter for another debate.

 

Someone who is prepared to move country to find work is demonstrating some determination.

G

Well 4 times the wages they were getting in there native country goes a long way to help that determination.

 

Hi Everyone

If you were Polish, Irish, Asian or African would you drop your surname in the belief that it stops you being called forward for job interviews?

Please, I want to hear about immigrants experiences not those from British people.

BL

As I am a mixture of different nationalities.

I decided to change my Name from Smith to Jones.

But have not noticed any benefit.?:|

 

[dawn6983]

..... I think I'd find it quite hard to distinguish between racial discrimination and a host of other discrimination out there.

Given that people 'tribe' into groups sharing similar attributes, it becomes increasingly hard to determine what type of discrimination is at play. It's easy to point the finger at 'racial' discrimination when our differences could include a host of other topics (economic, social, social, religious,........)

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Hi Everyone

If you were Polish, Irish, Asian or African would you drop your surname in the belief that it stops you being called forward for job interviews?

Please, I want to hear about immigrants experiences not those from British people.

BL

A post about possible discrimination that discriminates. Oh the irony

 

[Talay]

If I get an application in from Pavel from Moscow or Wojciech from Gdansk, then I know what I'm going to get from the applicant. Changing their names to Paul and Wayne will give me a different and not necessarily more favourable interpretation of what I might expect. However, at interview it will be obvious they are really Pavel and Wojciech and thus, any inference I might have towards such people would still affect my hiring decision.