AN INVESTIGATION ON THE DISCRIMINATION PRACTICES IN HIRING AND SELECTION OF EMPLOYEES
Discrimination is the unfair or unequal treatment of an individual or group based on certain characteristics, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, national origin, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. Discriminatory traditions, policies, ideas, practices and laws exist in many countries and institutions in every part of the world, including in territories where discrimination is generally looked down upon. In the province of Zambales, discrimination is not as loud as it is in other countries, but there is much significance regarding discrimination in Zambales. It was being applied in schools, when a student is with a different ethnicity from the rest of the students, also on churches when a couple is living together without being married, and especially when looking for a job, pleasing personality means a lot. This study aims to determine the discrimination practices experienced by the 100 graduates of President Ramon Magsaysay State University, Iba Campus, from the companies in Iba, Zambales. The survey questionnaire method was used in data gathering, with the findings showing that the respondents are seldom experienced the discriminatory hiring and selection practices of companies in terms of age discrimination, religious discrimination, sex and gender orientation, pregnancy-based or related medical conditions, and marriage and civil partnership. The respondents’ experiences have a significant difference in terms of religious discrimination according to their civil status and ethnicity. They have significant differences as well in terms of sex and gender orientation according to their ethnicity. They also have significant differences in terms of pregnancy-based or related medical conditions according to their gender. And they also have significant difference in terms of marriage and civil partnership according to their age, civil status, and highest educational attainment.
Discrimination practices, hiring and selection, gender orientation