Solutions
Most of the employment discrimination takes place during the hiring process where employers were pick certain applicants over other based on names, gender, ethnicity etc. To eliminate this we need a solution that targets the hiring process itself, since we can not eliminate the unconscious bias that is rooted in modern day employers we need a system that frees employers from considering such things. That is why a possible solution for employment is for the government to regulate the hiring process and to make sure applicants are chosen solely based on education and skill rather than ethnicity nationality or gender. This can be done through the implementation of several policies. One possible policy which would aid the issue of employment discrimination is for employers to access resumes or job applications anonymously without seeing the applicants name gender, race etc. This would help eliminate the number of applicants who are stripped of employment opportunities purely as a result of a race specfic name or gender.
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Since employment discrimination often goes unnoticed by the employers themselves, who are essentially the root of the issue, one possible solution to the problem is to have the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission also known as the EEOC provide U.S. employers with a yearly or quarterly certificate that compares the percentage of minority employment they have minority employment national average. This would not only help employers acknowledge their bad employment practices and provide them with a motivation to change them but will also alert employees, customers investors and other stakeholders of the discrimination present. This would essentially force employers to fix their employment practices, as a company who is below the average could be seen as 'unethical' or 'racist' which could have a severe effect on its reputation and damage its consumer base or even perhaps its partners and investors.
The simplest solution to resolve the issue of employment discrimination is to educate. Since employment discrimination often goes unnoticed a large portion of society doesn't know what it is, how immediate the problem is and how much it affects their lives . If employees and employers are trained to identify when their decisions are discriminatory or when they are being subjected to employment discrimination then they can consciously prevent it from taking place. To educate society we need businesses to train employers and local governments to correctly inform the labor force of their employment rights, specifically what employment discrimination is, the forms in which it may take place and their basic rights and privileges as employees.
