A survey conducted by Motivaction on behalf of the Dutch National Job Board (Nationale Vacaturebank) reveals that discrimination is still a prevalent issue for people working in the Netherlands. Age, sex and racial discrimination in particulqr remain a major issue on the labour market, according to a survey among 2 100 respondents. New research has revealed that…
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Netherlands Jobs market discrimination a major issue, but many employers donβt see it
Age, sex and racial discrimination remain a major issue in the Dutch labour market, according to a survey of 2,100 people carried out on behalf of Intermediair magazine and the jobs bank Nationale Vacaturebank. In total, 55% of the respondents said they had faced discrimination at some point when applying for a job β a…
Read moreWounds of Dutch history expose deep racial divide
By Anna Holligan BBC News, The Hague Bronze statues of colonial icons have been spray-painted. Black Lives Matter protests have broken out. And now the Dutch parliament has backed a petition by three teenage women requesting the addition of racism to the school curriculum. Winds of change are swirling around the cobblestones of The Hague….
Read moreDutch football match halted after βBlack Peteβ chants
Dutch football match halted after βBlack Peteβ chants By Matias Grez, CNN Published 7:14 AM EST, Mon November 18, 2019 Should footballers walk off the pitch over racist abuse? 01:38 – Source: CNNCNN β The Dutch Football Association has launched an investigation after a second division game between FC Den Bosch and Excelsior was stopped due to alleged…
Read moreFacebook moderator: The Netherlands is the land of hate
Cc header: Sam Michel Dutch Facebook users are notorious for the amount and intensity of the hate messages they hurl onto the medium. Moderators experience a gigantic stream of messages containing hate, racism and wishing for diseases such as cancer. De Volkskrant reports this based on conversations with a Dutch moderator who worked at Facebook last year and leaked…
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