If you thought progressive politics couldn’t get any worse, think again. It transpires that the Labour-led Westminster city council is advising its staff to undergo, er, ‘privilege’ testing and inclusive recruitment training in a bid to hire more people from non-white ‘global majority’ backgrounds. Time well spent…
The rather baffling virtual privilege test helps council staff realise their social advantages, with scores impacted by factors including whether your parents read to you as a child or whether you drive a new car or have a designer handbag. As the Telegraph reports, insiders say they would gain privilege points if English is their first language, if they reckon someone could bail them out financially and if they shop at Waitrose. The biggest scores are awarded to those who have never been stopped and searched by the police (+10) and, um, white males (+15). Heaven forbid!
Meanwhile managers involved in hiring processes must undertake compulsory unconscious bias training and inclusive recruitment training.
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