Civil service: beyond the platform, towards gender-neutrality

The new electronic recruitment system launching this December will modernise the process for civil service candidates. This coincides with the coming into force of an amendment to the Labour Code stipulating that from 24 December, employers must ensure all recruitment advertisements and job titles are gender-neutral and that the hiring process is entirely non-discriminatory. Kinga Polewka-Włoch comments to Dziennik Gazeta Prawna: “Specifying a gendered role like ‘chairman’ is insufficient; the language must include the option of a ‘chairwoman’ (and vice versa). This requires an administrative review of all job titles to ensure linguistic neutrality, mirroring the shifts we already see in correspondence where people sign off as ‘chair’ or ‘press spokesperson,’ rather than relying on traditionally gendered titles.”

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