The European Network Against Racism (ENAR),said that the Belgian labour
market is based on “ethnostratification”, which means that racial and ethnic origin play a major
role in determining a person’s employment prospects.
According to ‘ENAR’, Belgium was found to be a source of “continuing inequality and an undeniable hierarchy of
socio-economic positions” and the least likely to benefit from employment
opportunities in Europe, are those of Maghreb origin from North Africa, that is
those of Moroccan background, while Black Africans are the second-worst job
prospects, followed by those from Italy and Eastern Europe in Belgium
According to the report, the same hierarchy comes into play at all
levels of employment, from access to jobs up to the risk of redundancy..
“Racism structures the world of employment and work,” the report concludes.
However, the ENAR
report makes a number of recommendations which includes: ethnic quotas in
government jobs, based on what is called “inclusive neutrality”; positive
discrimination; opening government jobs up to non-citizens, in particular from
outside of Europe; and reforms to public holidays to remove religious
connotations.
Source: flanderstoday.be
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