Saudi law firm embroiled in racial profiling in recruitment
A premier law firm in Saudi Arabia has gotten embroiled in racial profiling while advertising for a vacancy. The Law firm of Salah Al-Hejailan is one of the most reputed law firms practising in Saudi. Read the email it sent to recruiters below.
We are interested in recruiting one senior Anglo-Saxon lawyer (with 7+ PQE), preferably with Saudi, but at the very least with GCC work experience to play a corporate/commercial role in our Jeddah office. By Anglo-Saxon we mean of Caucasian ethnicity as opposed to lawyers from the MENA or Asian Sub-Continent who happen to have UK or US nationality/qualifications. Please bear in mind that, as a general legal practice, we expect the successful candidate to have sufficient maturity/acumen to handle a broad range of legal work rather being specialised in one particular field.
We are also keen to recruit one junior Anglo-Saxon lawyer (with 3 – 5 years PQE) for the Riyadh office to support our general corporate/commercial practice. [Emphasis in the original]
Retractions have since been made from the firm owner Salah Al-Hejailan.
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Law firm of Salah Al-Hejailan [LINK]
LOL.. They want a Whitey!
STATEMENT FROM THE LAW FIRM OF SALAH AL HEJAILAN:
The Law Firm of Salah Al Hejailan (LFSH) is a very diverse organisation. It employs more than 25 lawyers of many nationalities including Saudi, Egyptian, Sudanese, Syrian, American, German, French and New Zealand, and it is firm policy to employ lawyers and support staff from a wide range of nationalities. In this case we were looking for a person who speaks fluent English to a very high professional standard. LFSH accepts that its brief to a recruitment agency should have been more appropriately worded and procedures will be put in place to ensure that communications by any member of its staff in the future are monitored and properly reflect LFSH’s diversity as an organisation.
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I have seen the job description and it was wrong. It is not representative of my firm which is made up of large diversity of nationality.
I am a noted Human Rights lawyer, a member of the International Advisory Board in New York of Human Rights Watch and decorated by the British Government (as Commander of the British Empire – CBE) as a result of a number of cases, including the British nurses case. See attached link.
The first new set of job description acted without authorization and will be subject to appropriate sanction.
In addition, I will undertake firm-wide training to make sure that this never happens again.
Thank you for bringing to my attention.
Yours faithfully,
Salah Al-Hejailan CBE
who would blame them, white people look morei mpressive on the mantle piece …..
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