Jews are finding it easier to obtain jobs in the hotel industry in New York City and hold about 10 percent of the more than 45, 000 positions in that industry, the State Commission Against Discrimination revealed this week-end at the conclusion of a two-year study of bias in the hotel field.
As with other minority groups, a smaller percentage of the Jewish employees were in contact with the public as desk clerks or reservation clerks. The commission said this situation was not conclusive, but “suggestive” of discrimination. It made no recommendation for reducing bias, but said that such proposals would be worked out in “a continuing relationship between the commission and the hotel industry” which covers over 500 hotels in the city.
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