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In the Netherlands, discrimination in job vacancy texts unfortunately still occurs. Sometimes, specific genders, ages or backgrounds are explicitly requested. The Inspectorate of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW) aims to combat this discrimination by enhancing their supervision of job vacancies posted by employers.
The Inspectorate seeks to acquire a tool, a 'vacancy scanner', which will collect online job vacancies and automatically evaluate them for potential discrimination. This information can then be used by the Inspectorate to take immediate action, after human verification, against the party responsible for posting the discriminatory job vacancy. Alternatively, it can be used to choose a more general supervision approach based on an aggregated view of sectors where discriminatory vacancies are frequently posted.
Dialogic will develop this vacancy scanner in the upcoming period for and with the Inspectorate SZW. Interested to learn more? Please contact Arthur Vankan.