Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781529222944 Author(s): Angelo Capuano Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2023 Publisher: Bristol University Press Pages: 252 Series: Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice

Description: This book exposes how inequalities based on class and social background arise from employment practices in the digital age. It considers instances where social media is used in hiring to infiltrate private lives and hide job advertisements based on locality; where algorithms assess socio-economic data to filter candidates; where human interviewers are replaced by artificial intelligence with design that disadvantages users of classed language; and where already vulnerable groups become victims of digitalisation and remote work.The author examines whether these practices create risks of discrimination based on certain protected attributes, including 'social origin' in international labour law and laws in Australia and South Africa, 'social condition' and 'family status' in laws within Canada, and others. The book proposes essential law reform and improvements to workplace policy.

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