ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the Commission for Racial Equality’s (CRE) language. The CRE supplies a questionnaire to the firm placing the contract to be completed by the firm wanting the contract. The CRE has argued that it should be used to allow extended leave of absence for Pakistani workers visiting their mother country, to permit Muslims time off for prayers, and to violate existing rules of dress for Asian female workers. The CRE favours its inclusion in British law as a justification for the special and privileged treatment of ethnic minorities. The CRE argues that in order to increase ethnic proportions in the work force, in housing and educational outcomes, then the authorities concerned must physically count, and work out proportions of, blacks and Asians involved. The CRE appears to believe that, say, employment, should be a racially representative area.
