Recruitment posts that cross fair language guidelines often hide in plain sight.
Take a recent classified advertisement that sought an “office boy” and stated a preference for applicants from a particular country. Then there was the company that stipulated age ranges in their job posting or the listing by an employer who sought applicants from a single state in a specific country. The examples listed have all appeared in the past few weeks.
In each case, these are near blink-and-you’ll-miss-them transgressions that can cause distress and stir anger, but they often crop up, despite a strong regulatory framework being in place to prevent them. Article 4 of the UAE Labour Law prohibits “discrimination on the basis of gender, race, colour, sex, religion, national or social origin or disability”. Officials have also previously told The National that “prejudicial discrimination has no place in the conditions of employment, nor in wider society”, leaving little room for doubt about what is fair usage and what is not.
Several years ago, this news organisation reported on the case of the children’s nursery that sought to employ teachers of “European origin and white skin”.
Continue Reading on The National UAE
This preview shows approximately 15% of the article. Read the full story on the publisher's website to support quality journalism.