A free app 'Discriminatie melden' (Discrimination Report) is launched to report discrimination at work

By: Together Abroad 18-10-2012 11:01 AM
Categories: * Daily employment news,


Thanks to a new app for mobile phones and tablets is should become easier to to report discrimination at work.
In fact discrimination is much more common than appears out of the resistered complaints and reports of discrimination. It is very importan to keep on registeresing such cases in order to to take action against discrimination.

Minister Leers (Immigration, Integration and Asylum), has launched the app last week. The application was developed on behalf of the National Trade Association of Anti-Discrimination Agencies (LBA). Leers gave a 14,000 euros grant to promote web banners, posters and cards and to make it more recognizable and approchable for the users.

Figures
In 2011, nationwide by the Anti-Discrimination Agencies (ADB's) registered about about 6,300 complaints and reports of discrimination. But research shows that people from specific groups (ethnic minorities, homosexuals, the disabled, women) suffer from discrimination much more often. In some studies shows that 30-40 percent of the target group each year faces discrimination. Often these people do not file a complaint to the police or report it to an Anti-Discrimination Bureau. They often do not know where to turn, or think that a filing a complaint will have no results. The app makes it easier to report discrimination.

The app
The free app 'Discriminatie melden' (Discrimination Report) is available to download for mobile phones (Android and iPhone) via the Android Store and the Iphone Store. The app can be selected for different types of discrimination: male / female, religion / belief, ethnicity, homosexuality, age and disability / illness. When reporting on the app you can can add a photo. For example, the evidence and explanations, such as those in a pub or disco refused. A reported within a regional Anti-Discrimination Bureau due to a postcode registration.

Source:  The Ministery of Internal Affairs

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