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New Recruitment Site says Ugly People Need Not Apply

The dating website BeautifulPeople.com has 750,000 “good looking” members on its books and has decided to create an employment agency as a spin-off of the main business. Companies who consider it important to only hire good-looking staff will be able to log on to the dating community website and browse through a selection of attractive … Read more

How to reduce discrimination in the recruitment process

Following the recent case of Kpakio v Virgin Atlantic and the issue of possible racial discrimination in the recruitment process, governmental organisations and employers alike are considering how to “level the playing field” when it comes to the recruitment process. A recent article in the Guardian discusses the possibilities. In December 2012 the all-parliamentary group … Read more

Case Review: Racial Discrimination case against Virgin Atlantic dismissed

Liberian-born Max Kpakio claimed that he had been discriminated against on grounds of race by Virgin Atlantic during the recruitment process for a customer services job in their Swansea call centre. Mr Kpakio, a British citizen with a degree in international relations, claimed that having been rejected for the post, he reapplied with a typically … Read more