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- From: Eugene McElroy <emcelroy@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: Discrim. in N.Ireland
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- Religious Bias Rises In Northern Ireland
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- Recently published figures show that religious
- discrimination in Northern Ireland is rising again. Male
- Catholics are now 2.6 times likely to be unemployed as
- Protestants--back to the position they had in 1971, after a
- period of slight improvement.
- The male youth unemployment rate, which is high for
- protestant workers at 19.6 percent, is double for Catholics with
- a staggering rate of 39 percent in the 16-25 age group. Catholics
- are only half as likely as Protestants to be in managerial or
- professional jobs, and are over-represented in semi and unskilled
- manual labor.
- To challenge discrimination, the government in 1989
- introduced a new 'Fair Employment Act' which offers high levels
- of compensation to workers who have been discriminated against.
- In a recent case Mary Duffy, a temporary laundry worker who
- was refused employment because of discrimination secured 25,000
- pounds sterling in compensation for injury to feelings. This is
- the largest amount ever awarded under this heading.
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- taken from Labour Research
- August 1992. Vol. 81, Number 8.
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- LR is available from:
- LRD
- 78 Blackfriars Road
- London, England SE1 8HF
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- for further info on Ireland in Peacenet, see reg.ireland.
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