- The measures will be mandatory for personal and online job searches in the City of Buenos Aires, in Argentina.
- Applicants are expected to be able to compete with equal treatment and opportunities.
- In addition, it says that job offers may not include restrictions for reasons such as age, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, ideology, political or union opinion, sex, among others.
The legislature of Buenos aires cityin Argentina, approved a bill so that it is not mandatory to include some key data in the Curriculum Vitae of job applicants.
The project, which would be approved this month in the legislative body of the Argentine capital, aims to prevent employers from requiring CVs with name, surname, photo and video of candidates with the idea of avoiding “any discriminatory bias that makes equal treatment and opportunities impossible”, the text says.
The bill, once it becomes law, will apply to both the public and private sectors.
The initiative will surely be converted into law because it was accompanied by the legislators of the ruling party and the opposition of the Economic Development Commission.
The project was the work of a party deputy, and the opposition alliance in the local legislature added some articles to it.
In this way, it will hardly be rejected at the time of the voting in the precinct.
No name on CV
The text of the law says among the arguments that it is sought “promote equal opportunities in the identification of talents, recruitment and job access in conditions of equity and non-discrimination”.
The measures will be mandatory for personal and online job searches.
They will apply to “personnel selection consultants, search platforms or portals and any other intermediary through which jobs are offered and demanded and the uploading and sending of resumes is allowed, within the scope of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ”, says the text.
In addition, it says that job offers may not include restrictions for reasons such as age, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, ideology, political or union opinion, sex, gender, marital status, economic position, social condition, physical characteristics, disability , residence, family responsibilities or criminal records of those who have served their entire sentence and any other information that is not essential for the job offered.
The text of the project adds that “in job offers, the submission of videos, photographs, images, audios, full name and surname or any other data that allows identification on social networks may not be required in a mandatory and exclusive manner.”
According to the author of the initiative, “the equitable job search minimizes the probability of discrimination, at least during the first phases of the personnel selection process, in this way the applicants can compete in equal treatment and opportunities”.
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