Quote Originally Posted by superheavyrhun
Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB
Except positive discrimination.

If a job is an equal opportunities employer... why do they need to know my ethnicity until after they employ me... if at all.

If they are monitering the ethenicity of people they employ... why not just do it after they've passed the employment process?

'This will not affect your chances of employment'... like F*** will it
I'm sorry. Positive discrimination is not all bad. In Cardiff, if you can speak Welsh, you are often pushed forward in jobs and careers, because it looks good for companies to have Welsh speakers in the company. And that is why jobs for welsh speakers pay on average around £2,000 more from what I saw in job agencies than those for english speakers doing the same thing.
Sorry but that is not positive discrimination, thats just people hiring the most qualified person.

If you have two candidates and one speaks one language and the other speaks two, including the language of the city where the interview is being held which person, all other things being equal would you choose?

Positive discrimination would be choosing the Welsh boy merely because he was Welsh even though the other guy spoke both languages and the Welsh lad didn't.