Contracts
18/08/2006 17:53
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The government is planning to vet firms bidding for public contracts and discount companies that have a low percentage of ethnic minority employees from tendering processes.
In the face of statistics showing that individuals from ethnic minorities are twice as likely to be unemployed as white counterparts, the Ethnic Minority Advisory Group has drafted new proposals to govern procurement.
The guidelines, as described in The Times, will take the ethnic composition of a company and compare it to the racial ratios of the area it is situated in. This will be taken into account when contacts are to be awarded.
Seven government ministers from different departments were involved in drafting the new plans, which will undergo a trial period before full implementation in 2007, if they prove successful
Chairman of the Ethnic Minority Advisory Group Iqbal Wahhab told the London-based newspaper: "These new procurement policies are required to assist employers in making more enlightened recruitment decisions
"It may be unpopular in some quarters, but the fact remains that we should not have been in this kind of position in the first place."
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