Rejected petition Remove ethnicities from applications

Rejected on 20 July 2020

I would like the government to ensure that people do not have to put their ethnicity on applications etc..

in todays world we talk about the affects of stereotypes, prejudice and systematic racism.

This is another example. Applying for a job, a loan, a mortgage or any other application in life should be about the raw skills, finances needed to be sucessfull.

What does race have to do with its sucess. If this is not a blatant show of segregation then what is.

For the government to accept this being requested is the government accepting and championing segregation

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

It is already against the law for someone to be discriminated against because of their race, and companies cannot use information about a person's race to discriminate against them.

The Government's guidance on preventing discrimination during recruitment already says that employers are only allowed to ask candidates for information about protected characteristics as part of equality monitoring, and the person selecting or interviewing candidates should not see this information: https://www.gov.uk/employer-preventing-discrimination/recruitment

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.