Episode 19 Inside Out

I Matthew Wright, you're watching Inside Out. Does having a Muslim

name damage your chances in the job market? There is a link in people's

minds between that and terrorism. That is why there is a problem. How

the Brexit vote is making it tough to find the European nurses the NHS

needs. On the NHS is already greatly understaffed. If you take away the

EU nurses it will be mayhem. And the American crayfish invading the

capital pot and what ways .- it was recognised that these American

crayfish that they thought were immune to the crayfish plague

carried it, and that will kill any non-American crayfish within two or

three weeks. President Trump's travel orders

against seven Muslim majority countries has been religious

discrimination at the top of the news agenda. Termination can come in

many forms, both blatant and subtle, and Inside Out Maul Has Been

Investigating Whether And Under Representation Of Muslims Is As A

Result Of Discrimination In The Jobs Market. We Conducted Our Own

Exclusive Research And Caroline Wyatt Has The Story. I'm In Between

Jobs At The Moment. It Is Quite Clear That It Is Not My

Qualifications that is the issue, it is my religion. NMI is there is a

link between Islam and terrorism. I think that is why they think there

is a link. They don't want to employ others. I been taken along the lines

of changing my name. Just to get the focus of my religion. Kangol name

religion hurt your search for a job? It is a topic of debate amongst many

Muslims with good reason. According to a report, Muslims are three times

more likely to be unemployed than anyone else. Soldiers are based on

your race... Is coach works with many Muslim job-seekers. She claims

some officers have admitted to routinely rejecting applicants with

Muslim horse or in sounding names. They have said to me the record that

when organisations do contact them, they have said don't send as any

foreign names. When I have questioned them, are you colluding

with them in not sending them, the recruitment consultants have said,

well, we need the business, and what is the point of sending them CDs and

applications when the ad is going to be returned. Armies of applicants at

a disadvantage? RACV is more likely to be rejected? To find out, we

don't undertake a experiment. Every park about managerial jobs, it is

really a CV or an application that starts the process. We have teamed

up with one of the UK's most renowned social scientist to help

with the experiments to ensure its accuracy. What we have done here is

great to resonate that are more or less identical. But they give to

different names. In one case here we have Abdul and in another Muhammad.

So these two job-seekers averagely indistinguishable, though they have

both have achieved degrees. They both worked as trainee managers and

will each be submitting applications for vacancies in the highly

competitive field of advertising sales. We will later find out how

they are doing. I have lived here for five years. Like many with the

women, this woman attends classes to help with her English. This is like

this take place across the capital after Government research suggested

poor language skills were to blame for high levels of unemployment. But

even Muslims who speak impeccable English can struggle. Ahmed, who

doesn't want to be identified, works as a building contractor and is

speaking from experience about a disturbing incident with a potential

employer. You is recruiting someone for a managerial position, it would

involve travelling to China, Japan, it was my dream job. If you days

later, and it received a text message from the man who had

requested his CVs. My previous dislike of Islam has no hard and

into real hate. That religion threatens our society, he said. I

felt threatened. This person with so much hatred has got my address. He

could do something to my family. Muslim men are 76% less likely to be

employed than their white Christian counterparts. Growing numbers claim

they are barred from the workforce due to prejudice. There is a

perception of Muslim employees in considered to be disloyal,

political, there appears to sometimes read as being

fundamentalist. This woman is a barrister who represents Muslims

taking legal action against employers. She believes that

prejudice against Muslims in the job market has escalated dramatically

over the last 15 years. Every time there is a terrorist incident, will

see that there is a growth in this treatment of employees. There has

been a spate of these cases since the terrorist attacks of 2005. Many

Muslim applicants modify the names to improve their chances in the job

market. Some Muslims have even been forced by their job markets to bats

bosses to adopt English names. My employer looked at my name and said

it wouldn't do, EZ introduce yourself as Terry Miles, some name

like that. I was very unhappy to do so. Mio recovery Joseph instead. I

kept saying no, that's not right. The athlete I had a middle name, but

he couldn't pronounce it, so he just told me Chris. This man works for a

farm is. It has taken him their to reach this senior role. I put my CV

in and was disappointed that I got rejection letters, someone suggested

that I put in an English name with my CV and see who they offer the job

to? Cyprus in my real name and I also put one in which John Smith.

John Smith got the interview. I got rejected for the interview. It is

the man since our job-seekers apply for the same 100 vacancies, so how

have they done? Allen Adam got 12 positive responses. -- full

responses from headhunters. The other applicant only got to

enquiries from headhunters. What we have identified is that the Muslim

sounding person byes CV is only likely to get them an interview in

one out of three cases where an Anglo-Saxon neighbours get a

response, a positive response. Research is based on a small sample,

but it does indicate a pattern of prejudice. Some organisations are

trialling name blind CDs, which stopped recruitment office making

unfair judgments. This unemployed chartered surveyor believes the

effect is limited. I've seen many people who are less skilled than me

but have risen up into more senior management positions much faster and

quicker, because their face fits. An application from a candidate like

myself at that early stage, sometimes they don't reveal the name

of the person, but clearly when you want into an interview, it is quite

apparent that you're not going to be John Smith. High levels of

joblessness have had a devastating effect on Muslim communities across

the capital. More than half of Muslim households live in poverty,

higher than any other social group. Changing this will require equal

access to employment. Caroline Wyatt reporting. Still to come,... My best

customers and the authors. We want crayfish. ... -- authors. MPs have

been thrashing out a bill to trigger Brexit, some sectors were a scene

where the effects of being keenly felt. That is certainly case for the

NHS, which is heavily dependent on the EU nurses, especially here in

the capital. Our urgent calls for the Government to clarify the status

of these workers to protect front line services. We made some

fantastic people who are anxious, who come here because they want to

do a really good job to a high standard. What they want is clarity,

like we all do. To sell the NHS do you nurses is much harder than it

was prior to Brexit. The NHS is already really gravely understaffed,

see if you take away the universes, it will be mayhem. -- EU nurses.

This man completed his medical training in Austria, he is now

working as a senior staff nurse at great on the. He is a long-term

ventilated patient, he had six surgeries already, he was really

sick at the beginning will stop he is smiling all the time now and he

is getting really good. I came here in December 2015 and I've been

working here since then. I always wanted to gain international

experience and prove my skills. For me, the NHS means always excellence

and high standards. You're addressing has been changed, right?

Last summer's vote in favour of Brexit means that the future status

of nurses like him is uncertain. They may lose their jobs and be

forced to leave the UK. The situation is unclear. We have a loss

of nurses from abroad, Spain, Italy and Portugal, it is a big impact for

the NHS if we had to leave. I do hope there will be a chance to stay

here. Cuts to training budgets and a shortage of nurses mean that many

hospitals rely heavily on EU nurses like this man. We haven't got enough

nurses in the UK to fill our vacancies and we do need people who

want to come and work and live in the UK, and when you look at the

figures, which are high, it is 13% of the nurses in London have been

recruited from Europe. That is 7000 individuals that are currently

supporting our families and our people out with their care. That is

a big impact if they were not to be hair. We're going to do ventilation

here... I Le Pen a world in the European Union where there was no

question about if I would be welcome in another state, I would just go

because I can, it is my right. Is Italian nurse is in her final year

of training at London's Southbank University. She may also be forced

to leave the UK after Brexit. I was quite shocked by the Brexit vote. I

never expected a result like this. I felt a bit betrayed because these

are the people that we look after, so they can see the level of care we

provide, they can see how we work. To think that they act the professor

as not being hair, it was a bit of a shock. She believes that Brexit is

going to throw up numerous obstacles for EU nurses wanted to work here. I

think there is going to be first of all a psychological impact on nurses

wanting to come here, and then there is the practicalities. Need a Visa?

They might say you can't stay here unless you have a certain minimum

income. What if they lose their job for whatever reason? Do they need to

be deported? Currently, recruiting nurses from the EU is relatively

straightforward. The European directive ensures that training

standards are the same across all the member states. Post Brexit, this

is likely to change. If we do have to treat those coming from Spain,

Italy, France on the same footing as those coming from Canada and the

etc, it is probably going to take longer. Funny companies who have

been recruiting EU nurses for the NHS, the pipeline has already

started to drive. We have seen approximately a 20% reduction of

placements. To sell the NHS to the EU nurses is much harder than it was

prior to Brexit. They are scared of giving up everything within their

homes, moving across to the UK, and not feeling valued, feeling like it

might not be a permanent opportunity. Last time I was in

Spain, I was approached by a nurse who wondered if she would be welcome

in England. Which is such a shame. New figures have revealed that while

over 1300 nurses from the EU register to work in Britain last

July, in December that figure had fallen to just over 100. Among the

EU nurses already employed here, only those who have worked long

enough to qualify for residency had been able to achieve a degree of job

security. I applied for a permanent residents and I got the results in

December, and from now until... And now I can nicely worked here and

stay in the UK. So the doctors saw you today... This nurse completed

her degree and portico a goal in 2009. Since then, she has worked for

a London hospital trust, supervising stroke patients. That is why you're

having problems with your right hand. The left side of the brain

controls the right side. If I were staying in Portugal, I would be a

clinical specialist seven years after I qualified. I think the NHS

invests in their staff in a way that my country doesn't. We think your

stroke is on the left side of the brain. There are many EU nurses

working here who might not have the option of staying. Concerns about

the potential damage Brexit could do to the nursing pipeline are being

put to the Government by the Cavendish coalition. And an umbrella

group of 33 different health organisations including NHS

employers. What they are asking for is that they are granted indefinite

leave to remain. So they they are clear they have a real commitment

from this country to being part of our population and part of our

social care and health provision beyond just leaving the European

Union. We contacted the Department of Health told is that the Prime

Minister has been clear... For London's 7000 EU nurses official

assurances can come soon enough. I certainly want to see the Government

clarifying their position on EU workers. They know perfectly the NHS

cannot cope without ours. They have to do it build batter is about as

the NHS will collapse. -- with outdoors. It's great that so many of

our rivers and canals are a lot cleaner than they used to be, and

wildlife is thriving. However, is one resident of what a waste that

has been making itself unwelcome. We said Nigel Barden divide out more

about the invasion of the American crayfish. -- find out. This could be

the Mississippi Delta. It is only 12 miles from the City of London. Dust

is the perfect time to set your crayfish trap. -- dusk. This

fisherman is looking forward to a good catch. We use a bait of

mackerel or anything fishy and oily and we just placed that out in the

water, make sure the zip is closed, and we leave them in there for

approximately 24 to 48 hours,. They can go out. On a good catch, that

would be between 120 and 150 kilos. That is a lot of crayfish. Crayfish

are very tasty and crayfish gumbo is a fantastic dish. Our waterways and

London are chock-full of them. This isn't a great story about food on

our doorstep, it is bad news, because these are invaders. They

nearly killed off all our native species. But how did they get here

in the first place? They were introduced for fishery business to

export to stand on a via back in 1976. They were put into various

quarries and fisheries around outside London and further, and they

breed and they've got legs and they can get out the lakes, which they

did. They sped around. Very soon after they were introduced, it was

recognised that these American crayfish that they thought were

immune to the crayfish plague carried it, and that will kill any

non-American crayfish within two or three weeks. And kill them it did.

Our waterways are now full of these invaders. They become a big

environmental problem as local fishermen have witnessed. They can

damage the environment, burrow into the banks, clear natural vegetation

and water which fish and other water invertebrates rely on. Babel eat

fish eggs. It stops further populations of fish coming through.

Occasionally they can easily catch and eat small fish. Ayes he believes

the answer is to trap and eat them. He started an organisation where he

buys them from trappers and sells them on. I set it up as pest

control, with the idea of trying to get rid of as many crayfish as

possible. It seemed that not much was being done about it. I would do

my various events, the DA crayfish and Boyle, a big party, but will get

to over 100 kilos in an evening for one of those events. If you have

those idea, Glastonbury Festival I get to quarter of a time. My best

customers are the authors. They always want crayfish. -- authors.

The crayfish that you give to them and London Zoo, where are they from?

There is a lot of crayfish in the Berkshire area and Gloucestershire,

and other places, I've got boots up in the Thames, there is quite a lots

by the M25, but are not allowed to get near them.

Trapping these pests seems to be a piece of cake. If we have so many of

them, white and Bob trap them in the shires but is not allowed anywhere

near them here? Many of the capital's waterways and managed by

the canal and liver trust, and although they put the non-native

crayfish and right near the top of their rogues gallery, they almost

always refused to let people trap them commercially. The crayfish will

eat younger ones as well. If you put down traps, even though they are

quite intensive basis, you're more likely to get the older crayfish and

it means that they won't be there to keep the numbers down on the younger

ones, and the population can just explode. The other thing is the

methods that are used to trap crayfish, these pots, they will

catch other things as well and we had a number of incidents on our

network over recent years where authors and birds have got caught in

that. -- otters be found lots of illegal

traps and this is one that we found just if you had regards from where

we're standing now. What you can find its creatures, specifically

otters, would be able to enter into the trap looking for the bait which

is placed there to attract the crayfish, but once in there, the

otters would find it difficult to get out and this is some measures

under the water, and therefore they will drown. The canal and river

trust are aware that most commercial trappers use safe and legal nets,

and it really won both the crayfish and the illegal trappers out of our

waterways. We have a close the door for ever on allowing mass trapping

in London. A trial is going on on intensive trapping to try its

effectiveness. It has been carried on, and if those results show that

it can be done, we would look into working with it on the problem.

We've got several reasons for not doing it. So far, we found very

little else that actually does work, and severe got to find some way of

tackling the invading -- invasive species. May be one way of helping

the native crayfish would be to stop thinking of these American invaders

as pests. Like the otters, think of them as a delicious meal. I heartily

say, the look tasty and the otters seemed to agree. That is all for

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