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Researchers from the National Centre for Social Research, commissioned
by the Department for Work and Pension (DWP), sent three different
applications for 987 actual vacancies between November 2008 and May
2009. Nine occupations were chosen, ranging from highly qualified
positions such as accountants and IT technicians to pearl jewelry less well-paid positions such as care workers and sales assistants. All the job vacancies were in the private, public and voluntary sectors and were based in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, London and Manchester. The report, to be released tomorrow, concludes that there was no plausible explanation for the difference in treatment found between white British and ethnic minority applicants other than racial discrimination. It also finds that public sector employers were less likely to have discriminated on the grounds of race than those in the private sector. One reason for this discrepancy, according to the conclusion, is the use of standard application forms in the public sector which hide or disguise the ethnicity of an applicant. The research is also understood to have found that larger employers were less likely to discriminate than small employers. Researchers have refused to release the names of the biwa pearl guilty employers, but it is expected that they will be contacted to let them know they had been targeted. The report has been welcomed by senior race advisers as evidence of discrimination in the job market. Iqbal Wahhab, chair of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Group, which proposes policy changes for the government on race and employment, said: "The evidence of the DWP report is unquestionable ¨C we live in a society where racial discrimination systematically occurs and currently goes in the main unchallenged." Wahhab, an entrepreneur, said that the employers should not be "named and shamed" but persuaded to cultured pearl jewelry change. | ||
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In her column yesterday, Moir wrote under the pearl jewelry
headline "There was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death"
that the circumstances "are more than a little sleazy" and told how he
and his civil partner, Andrew Cowles, had taken a Bulgarian man to
their flat in Majorca after an evening clubbing. Gately reportedly
smoked cannabis on the night he died, Moir added. Bertie Ahern, Ireland's former taoiseach,, joined in the criticism of the Mail's coveragetoday. Speaking before signing a book of condolence on a lectern in the middle of Seville Place directly facing the church, the ex-prime minister said he could not fathom why the paper's columnist had launched what thousands have condemned as a homophobic attack on the freshwater pearl bracelet singer's memory. "You could see it last Sunday and Monday when I was in London and some of the papers were waiting to write some sensational piece about him. The guy [Gately] was a good guy who died of natural causes and this is his funeral so I can never understand why people just don't leave things simple," Ahern said. Others outside the church were even more forthright in their condemnation of the Daily Mail column. Alan Hunter, who runs the Irish music radio station ShamrockFM.com, urged as many people as possible to write to the paper's editor and demand an apology for Gately's family. "We are all very very insulted by that coverage even if biwa pearl people are entitled to their own opinion. There is a time and a place for everything but it was the wrong time entirely to be launching an attack like that. I certainly hope the Irish people force that newspaper's editor to apologise for the great hurt caused by that article. It's the least they can do," Hunter said. | ||
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Researchers from the National Centre for pearl jewelry
Social Research, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pension
(DWP), sent three different applications for 987 actual vacancies
between November 2008 and May 2009. Nine occupations were chosen,
ranging from highly qualified positions such as accountants and IT
technicians to less well-paid positions such as care workers and sales
assistants. All the job vacancies were in the private, public and voluntary sectors and were based in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, London and Manchester. The report, to be released tomorrow, concludes that there was no plausible explanation for the difference in treatment found between white British and ethnic minority applicants other than racial discrimination. It also finds that public sector employers were less likely to biwa pearl have discriminated on the grounds of race than those in the private sector. One reason for this discrepancy, according to the conclusion, is the use of standard application forms in the public sector which hide or disguise the ethnicity of an applicant. The research is also understood to have found that larger employers were less likely to discriminate than small employers. Researchers have refused to release the names of the guilty employers, but it is expected that they will be contacted to let them know they had been targeted. The report has been welcomed by senior race advisers as evidence of discrimination in the job market. Iqbal Wahhab, chair of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Group, which proposes policy changes for the government on race and employment, said: "The evidence of the DWP report is unquestionable ¨C we live in a society where racial discrimination systematically occurs and currently goes in the main unchallenged." Wahhab, an entrepreneur, said that the employers should not be "named and shamed" but persuaded to change. "The employers who fell foul of the DWP CV test are not bigots ¨C they are business people. I don't suggest we slap injunctions on them and probably not even name and shame them, but instead we should help them understand that their current practices mean they are not fit to supply big customers like government departments," he said. The findings echo the experience of akoya pearl black and Asian jobseekers contacted this weekend. James Nkwacha, 28, a physics graduate whose family are from Nigeria, said he has applied for 60 jobs this year but had only two replies. "The jobs are within my range. I am qualified for them. But for some reason I have been overlooked," he said. | ||
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Pakistan threw more than 30,000 soldiers into a long-anticipated ground
offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban strongholds along the Afghan
border yesterday, following two weeks in which militants have killed
more than 175 people across the country. Early reports suggested the
advancing troops were meeting fierce resistance from pearl jewelry Taliban fighters. The United States has been pushing the government to carry out the assault in South Waziristan, which it must now attempt to complete before the onset of winter snows in early December. Pakistan has fought three unsuccessful campaigns since 2001 in the region, which is the heartland of Pakistani insurgents fighting the US-backed government. The area is also a major base for foreign militants planning attacks on Nato forces in biwa pearl Afghanistan and on targets in the west. Pakistani sources claim there are up to 1,500 foreign fighters and 10,000 local Taliban fighters in the region. After months of aerial bombing, Pakistan's cabinet yesterday ordered troops into the region from several directions, heading to the insurgent bases of akoya pearl Ladha and Makeen, among other targets. At least 11 suspected insurgents were killed, while a bomb hit a security convoy, killing one soldier and wounding three others, intelligence officials said. | ||
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At least 10 Labour MPs are considering taking legal action against
their own party over the way in which they have been treated during the
expenses scandal, according to senior party figures. The group includes Jim Devine, MP for Livingston, who was deselected by Labour's "star chamber" in a row over disputed claims worth £4,500 for pearl jewelry office costs. The threats are the latest evidence of a backlash by MPs against the punishment being dealt out by party leaders. Last week Devine was given a clean bill of health by Sir Thomas Legg, the former civil servant called in to review expenses, and was not asked to pay any money back. Devine said he had a lawyer who was "foaming at the mouth" and wanted to challenge the party for referring him to its star chamber. Labour says Legg had been investigating only claims made by MPs under the additional costs allowance (ACA) and had not looked at those under "incidental expenses", which cover office costs. Others who are said to feel badly treated include David Chaytor, MP for Bury North, who announced in June that he would step down before his case was considered by the star chamber. Chaytor, a respected member of the education select committee, faced likely deselection after it emerged that he claimed almost £13,000 on a biwa pearl non-existent mortgage. Friends of Ian Gibson, the former Labour MP for Norwich North, who stepped down in the summer after being summoned to the star chamber and told he could not stand again, said recently that he felt he had "grounds to sue" over his treatment. He had claimed £80,000 on a London flat in which his daughter lived and where he stayed. In a further sign that the expenses saga will drag on well into next year Revenue and Customs confirmed yesterday that it was investigating claims by 27 MPs. In May the Observer revealed that the taxman was looking into whether MPs had deliberately evaded capital gains tax when selling their second homes. The furore over Legg's call on MPs to repay expenses is now fuelling renewed debate inside the Labour party over Gordon Brown's future. One senior Labour MP said last week that plans were under way to gather at least 100 MPs to back an "anti-Brown" candidate in next month's elections for the chairmanship of the parliamentary labour party. Veteran Labour MP Barry Sheerman is ready to stand if he can gain sufficient support but would give way if another candidate could secure more backers. A party source said that MPs were "angry beyond belief" at the way Brown had handled the akoya pearl expenses crisis. A party spokesman said last night that no official legal letters had been received from any MP, past or present, about their treatment over expenses. | ||
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