Born during the year of the Dog (Water +)1982: "The Original Party Animal."
Posted on 12/28/2005 11:19:18 AM PST by presidio9
Chinese tradition holds 2006 will be a year of bad luck for people born under the sign of the dog, but misfortune has come early for some looking for jobs, state media said on Wednesday.
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Chinese companies looking for new recruits had deliberately passed over candidates born as dogs in China's ancient 12-animal astrological cycle to ward off the bad luck expected for people in years of their same sign, the China Youth Daily said.
The rooster will make way for the dog at Chinese Lunar New Year in late January.
The dog denials were just one example of widespread employment discrimination in China, a Chinese legislator told parliament during discussions about a new labour law on Tuesday, the newspaper said.
"Workplace discrimination has even reached this ridiculous level," Wan Xuewen was quoted as saying.
Wan said the new labour law should include clauses to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity and religion, the newspaper reported.
Many Chinese companies showed illegal hiring biases, even according to such factors as height and blood type, it said.
A rule that women applying for government jobs in central Hunan province had to show they had symmetrically shaped breasts sparked a public uproar last year and calls for stronger legal protection against job discrimination.
Hunan scrapped its requirement, but China still does not have clear-cut laws ruling out such hiring prejudices.
Born during the year of the Dog (Water +)1982: "The Original Party Animal."
A rule that women applying for government jobs in central Hunan province had to show they had symmetrically shaped breasts
That's just really all that needs to be said.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
"A rule that women applying for government jobs in central Hunan province had to show they had symmetrically shaped breasts sparked a public uproar last year and calls for stronger legal protection against job discrimination."
I know there is a joke in there somewhere.
I'll be the judge of that!
Life will be 'ruff' (sorry).
...*nothing*...
I was born in a dog year. Refuse to be hounded by superstition.
You'd still be able to discriminate on the basis of "birth year animal sign" under those laws. Just as in America, "political beliefs" are not protected as "sexual beliefs" and "religious beliefs" are. Political correctness is about stifling dissent from the liberal agenda.
Diversity training is just another term for re-education center.
Maybe THIS was what Bill Clinton was discussing at those Chinese coffees he held at the White House.
That is true!!
http://www.aapn.org/stbernard.html
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