The survey also found that female representation increased when restaurants advertised job openings in newspapers instead of relying on recommendations.

Notices posted in the shops advertised jobs, rooms for rent and religious activities for Arabic-speaking newcomers.

From 1973, the then Department of Employment began to open a new network of Jobcentres that advertised Jobs but did not process benefits.

One example cited was a Colombian woman who had the proper documents but was refused the opportunity to apply for an advertised job in a garment factory.

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The method is for, say, a West Indian to pretend to apply for an advertised job and then to be followed a little later by a white person applying for the same job.

It is regarded as being more important that the new appointee be familiar with the aims and methods which Highlander endorses rather than necessarily be able to present the best paper qualifications for the advertised job.

Indirect discrimination would occur if, for example, an employer only advertised jobs in magazines aimed at young people - this may discriminate against older people as they are less likely to subscribe to the magazine; or introduced a benefit only for employees with more than ten years' service - fewer younger employees are likely to have enough service to qualify.