Study Of Employment Discrimination Issues

In recent years, as the contradiction of supply outstripping demand in talent market began to stand out, the recruitment discrimination, which has become a serious social problem, not only has significant influence upon job applicants, but arouses a growing public concern. Consequently the side effects resulting from this social problem not only bring trouble to biased job applicants, but have a negative effect on the whole society, where people's viewpoints toward equality, law and self-esteem have been considerably affected, leading to a much slowed social civilization process. Confronted with such a solemn social weakness, people from all social fields are supposed to assume the mission of finding solutions to lessened recruitment discrimination bestowed upon by times.This thesis is composed of four chapters:Chapter One shows the various forms that emerge in current recruitment discrimination. In contrast to a developing economy, a society in progress, and gradually improved cultural and legal awareness on the public's part, recruitment discrimination, instead of being lessened, give rise to many a new form among which such personal features as weight, appearance, blood type, constellation and surname have a share in a number of companies' criteria set for job applicants, in addition to the common gender, regional, age and handicap discrimination encountered in job hunting.Chapter Two reviews some existing research theories in recruitment discrimination, which is actually a deep-rooted problem not only in china but in other countries. As it has been long since economists and socialists conducted relevant researches in this field, this chapter reviews this theoretical research results to make preparations for the following chapters.Chapter three traces back to the origins of current recruitment discrimination from its cultural and institutional sources. All social problems do not exist without reasons and it is of paramount importance for the solution of recruitment discrimination to analyse its nature and trace back to its causes. Based on theories concerning labour market discrimination in western labour economies, a systematic and comprehensive analysis ismade about the main causes accountable for the current recruitment discrimination from such perspectives as traditional culture, modern enterprise culture as well as law and institutions, in combination with reality in China.Chapter Four launches a comparative analysis of laws laid down for regulating recruitment discrimination in China and America. Though the culture of a society and its various institutions are involved in the occurrence of recruitment discrimination, the solution of which is of first importance a legal issue. A typical western developed country-America is selected for the comparison of legal systems with China.In Chapter Five, some proposals are suggested in solving recruitment discrimination in China, the occurrence of which is the results of various social factors, and whose solution demands full participation and joint efforts from all over the society.