UCU: Inclusive recruitment procedures in HE

Motion

Motion text: HESC notes online recruitment processes across HE discriminate against disabled
people, increasing pay and progression gaps and impeding workplace diversity.
HESC notes the AI Employment Bill, developed by TUC, seeks to regulate
employers’ use of AI systems.
Increased use of AI in recruitment processes, such as personality tests, impacts
disabled people through biased systems and discriminatory processes.
Inclusive employment practices are essential to equity, academic freedom, and
quality education.
The Equality Act 2010 requires every employer to make recruitment processes
fully accessible. Online recruitment (without built-in anonymous reasonable
adjustments) -creates a further barrier for disabled people to access recruitment
and requires them to declare.
HESC resolves to campaign for
1. Inclusive candidate processes in HE.
2. Automation of job processes and built-in anonymous reasonable adjustment
identification.
3. Campaign for universities to abide by existing legislation on inclusion and
employers to conduct transparent equality impact assessments on
recruitment and employment practices.