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View submission: Royal Mail in Northern Ireland.
I remember seeing a job advert for a Royal Mail job and it said they were trying to recruit more "women and Protestants" because they were underrepresented. I found this strange given that Royal Mail is obviously a UK wide mail service. Protestants would be the majority.
Comment by AmberLeafKeith at 10/03/2025 at 20:24 UTC
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Whats to stop someone applying for the job, saying they’re a protestant, then openly admitting that it wasn’t true once they are hired? On the one hand could your employer not sack you for lying in your application but then on the other isn’t religion a protected characteristic so you cant be sacked for that alone I think? Sounds like a nightmare but I’m sure theres a reason they ask.
Comment by Postmanpaddy at 10/03/2025 at 19:27 UTC
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I would imagine that applied to the specific office that the job was for
Comment by 8Trainman8 at 10/03/2025 at 19:34 UTC
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Ummm because Northern Ireland's legislation is different they would treat here as a separate arm of the business. So only workers here would be in the stats.
Besides even if it WAS the whole UK and N Ireland in the stats, there's no way the majority of people on the mainland would identify as protestant. In fact all the Christian faiths lumped together gives around 46%. You do know green and orange isn't a thing on the mainland? Small parts of Scotland, maybe, everywhere else don't care.