The Atheist
The Grammar Tyrant
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Having some spare time over christmas, I decided to get some actual statistics on my employees and what percentages of trouble came from black/brown* vs white employees. The idea came about as my accounts woman kept complaining about the extra work she was required to do for things which have nothing to do with us as employers, but for which we are required to do additional work with no recompense.
We have had a total of 212 employees over the past year.
The first thing I looked at was enforced child support - being my accounts clerk's main issue. This is when a liable parent does not pay his dues so the employer is forced to deduct money from the employees wages and pay it direct to the government agency.
We received notices for 86%, yes eighty-six percent, of black employees that we were to deduct child support from their wages. As of right now, we don't have a single black employee who is not having child support deductions taken direct from wages.
Only 11% of white employees had the same problem.
Unpaid fines also attract garnishee orders by the Justice Department, and while 22% of black employees were given notice of deduction, no white employees fell into the same trap.
We do pre-employment drug testing and while some 10% of whites failed the test, 33% of blacks did. 4% and 12% respectively of drug-test candidates failed to turn up for their tests.
Of employees sacked during the year, 6% of black employees were deemed to have walked off the job by being absent without contact for three days, while only .5% of white employees did the same thing.
The only employees sacked for being violent at work were black - three during the year.
Sick leave was another area of concern and it was notable that 40% of black employees used their full sick leave entitlement while only 8% of whites did.
I have the records for anyone wishing to check, although I cannot give names, obviously.
* I am using the generic term "black" although the more correct word would be brown since we are talking almost exclusively about Polynesian/Maori.
We have had a total of 212 employees over the past year.
The first thing I looked at was enforced child support - being my accounts clerk's main issue. This is when a liable parent does not pay his dues so the employer is forced to deduct money from the employees wages and pay it direct to the government agency.
We received notices for 86%, yes eighty-six percent, of black employees that we were to deduct child support from their wages. As of right now, we don't have a single black employee who is not having child support deductions taken direct from wages.
Only 11% of white employees had the same problem.
Unpaid fines also attract garnishee orders by the Justice Department, and while 22% of black employees were given notice of deduction, no white employees fell into the same trap.
We do pre-employment drug testing and while some 10% of whites failed the test, 33% of blacks did. 4% and 12% respectively of drug-test candidates failed to turn up for their tests.
Of employees sacked during the year, 6% of black employees were deemed to have walked off the job by being absent without contact for three days, while only .5% of white employees did the same thing.
The only employees sacked for being violent at work were black - three during the year.
Sick leave was another area of concern and it was notable that 40% of black employees used their full sick leave entitlement while only 8% of whites did.
I have the records for anyone wishing to check, although I cannot give names, obviously.
* I am using the generic term "black" although the more correct word would be brown since we are talking almost exclusively about Polynesian/Maori.
