Descrimination For Lebanese People in Employment...

Hi everyone, today my topic is about Lebanese people who had descrimination in employment. Based on the information i was read, most of Lebanese people who lived in Australia had a descrimination in their work especially those who were unemployed, and they also felt the Lebanese had a bad image. This is also the opinion of a wide range of professionals people in services industrie.

Lebanese seeking work are unlikely to be told their application for employment is rejected because they are Lebanese. The most clear examples of descrimination given were by Sunni women. Her employer did not want to employ them because of their dress, i.e. headscarves and longdresses. The employers in their said it would cause trouble with other workers because they would think them strange. Not only the employers had descrimination like that, the teenagers from Lebnese had the same experience too in their schools. They indicated they wanted to wear a scarf but that they feared being rejected by their non-Lebanese peers.

The Lebanese have acquired a negative stereotype of being aggressive, reluctant to work and prone to industrial accidents. The negative stereotypes about Lebanese are the product of complex processes and images. These include political violance in lebanon, rivalry between Lebanese communities in Sydney, high unemployment amongst Lebanese born workers, and descrimination onthe grounds of age and sex in the labour market.

Posted by Karina Ekasari S