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In the Netherlands, unfortunately, discrimination still occurs in job vacancy texts. Sometimes, there is an explicit request for individuals of a specific gender, age, or background. The Inspectorate of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (Inspectie van SZW) aims to combat this discrimination and wishes to enhance its supervision of vacancies posted by employers.
The Inspectorate aims to have access to a tool, a 'job vacancy scanner', that collects online job vacancies and assesses them (automatically) for potential discrimination. This information can then be used by the Inspectorate to take immediate action, following human review, against the party that posted the discriminatory job vacancy. Alternatively, it can choose a more general supervision approach based on an aggregated overview of sectors where discriminatory job vacancies are relatively common.
Dialogic will develop this job vacancy scanner in the coming period for and with the Inspectorate SZW. Want to learn more? Please contact Arthur Vankan.