France's LEEM supports "anonymous CV"

A joint venture between the French drug industry association (LEEM) with anti-racism activist group SOS Racisme has been launched to ensure the pharmaceutical sector does not discriminate on ethnicity grounds in its recruitment practices. North African candidates for sales positions reportedly are five times less likely to be offered a position than Caucasians. A lack of government enforcement of a 2006 anti-discrimination law led the LEEM to support a pioneering voluntary initiative for anonymous curriculum vitaes. So far, SOS Racisme claims the LEEM's on-line filtering mechanism has worked effectively and there has been no evidence of employers being reluctant to use it.