Overview
- Minister Aurore Bergé announced the start of the state-led testing campaign on franceinfo on Monday.
- The government will send 4,000 test CVs to real job vacancies across twenty sectors.
- Profiles will vary by sex, first and last name, and address to detect differential treatment and compare sectors.
- Findings are intended to guide targeted responses and could lead to sanctions, legal changes, or an index-style accountability mechanism.
- The initiative follows a Défenseur des droits and ILO barometer indicating about one in three people experienced employment discrimination in the past five years.