Before he will be able to get the same employment opportunities as a White man in the same situation, a young Black unemployed will have reached his retirement age, reveals a study made by the national statistics office. Figures presented to the government on November 9 show that, with the current progression rate, 45 years would be necessary to diminish the gap between white people and people belonging to ethnic minorities in terms of employment rates. To speed up the results, the government decided to show the job seeker's ethnic origin in unemployment figures and to give administrations more freedom to target priorities according to the regions. (Ref . 061125)
The gap between white people’s employment rate and that of ethnic minorities has been stagnant for the past twenty years. With two points lost since 2003, it is currently at 15%. However, unfairness also concerns wages: the hour pay for a man coming from Bangladesh is less than two thirds of a white man’s pay. There are many reasons to this unfairness, from the lack of qualification of some communities to some companies recruiting by word of mouth without properly announcing that they have va
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