LinkAnother case of ethnic nepotism and networking.
I've personally witnessed this over a period of many years. One ethnic family member will get himself ensconced as an employee in an organisation that has hundreds on the pay-roll.
And then it begins.
He'll inveigle the company's Personnel Manager to give first preference for vacancies to members of his extended family. It's not legal, but who's to know? Job vacancies must by law be advertised to the public.
And then this inflow of family members increases exponentially as each vacancy becomes available.
Before too long the entire cleaning staff of a big city hotel, or a hospital, or the airport, or public transport ~ becomes almost the private domain of an extended family who are all connected to one another by blood and marriage ~ and often by people who are from the same village back in Lebanon or Greece. Or simply people of their ethnic background.
In this story we see the success someone's had in beefing up the nursing assistant staff with fellow ethnics, and immediate and extended family members.
It's an ethnic racket in as much as it sidelines the general public from having an equal opportunity to fill these vacancies.
The more Pacific Islanders, or whichever ethnicity and family-group is being fast-tracked into these jobs ~ the greater is the intimidation felt by the Personnel Manager that he had better not employ anyone other than the 'uncle' or 'cousin' or 'aunty' who he has been told is waiting for a vacancy to turn up.