Oh you mean: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/11/chapter/2 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/11/chapter... Specifically outla

Oh you mean: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/11/chapter/2 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/part/11/chapter... Specifically outlaws having a policy of lowering the bar. You can only choose one protected character over another if they are equally qualified. Specifically the guidance that comes with this says that its legally unwise to do anything past pipeline stage, once you have reached interviewing, its a bad idea. Its certainly something I'm not going to do. Now, in the uk we do not have "affirmative action" thats an americanism. We do not need to import american racism issues, we have enough of our own. I have worked in IT long enough, and recruited enough people to know that the people who complain about the "bar" generally are never privy to the actual data.