China should draft a law to guard job-hunters against varied forms of
employment discrimination, said a farmer-turned deputy to the imminent session
of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) here on Friday.
Wang Yuan'an, from Tai'an City in east China's Shandong Province, showed his
great concerns about the unreasonable bias against women and people with less
preferable education background on China's job market and called it "a big
problem related to social justice".
Wang, who had been a migrant rural worker, is now president of a school
providing training in computer skills. He cited a few examples of people facing
groundless difficulties in hunting for jobs due to their looks, height and age
barriers set by employers during an interview with Xinhua.
In central China's Hunan Province, 25-year-old Fan Siping failed with his
application to local civil service as he is 0.005 meters shorter than the
required height.
"A law on fair employment is in an urgent need in China," said Wang.
A harmonious society should give adequate space to talents competing on an
equal footing and developing to their capability to the full, and waste of any
human resources does not facilitate economic and social development, he said. So
he would very much like to submit a proposal in this regard to the NPC session
slated to convene on Saturday.