To have been “racially” profiled by HR

Same. It’s often the case with threads that people are desperate for the OP to be wrong/ unreasonable that they will deliberately repeat the same thing over and over and completely miss the point despite the OP being very clear. It’s incredibly frustrating. For what it’s worth op i would come to the same conclusion you have.

I think from reading this thread that the majority of people have never recruited for a company and have no idea what a share code is and who needs one.

Okay, this is potentially a bit of a drip feed.

They shouldn't have phrased the question that way as a point of policy.

But you having worked for a UK competitor could just mean you had a visa through them.

How cross I would be (or not) depends how much of your experience and education has been abroad as @CautiousLurker2 says.

Looks like you haven't read the op either...

Exactly this!

Checking everyone would be 'please provide your right to work on the UK' not 'please provide your share code that only foreign workers have'

Thank God there is always least someone else on this thread who can actually read and comprehend!

So many responses have been so dismissive, take the time to read what the OP is actually saying!

Why is that racial?

Yes, but if your CV says you were educated overseas, rather than at Brighton comprehensive school, or that you studied at INSEAD in France, or that 3 out of 4 of your last jobs were overseas, then the fact that you are currently working in the UK may not have been enough for them to feel confident that you were British. It is definitely a clumsy request - it should have been worded as you’ve suggested above, asking for either passport or share code as evidence of RTW in the UK - but it may also be a mistaken inference from the data on your CV?

Of course she is being unfairly discriminated against. Not all discrimination involves being beaten up or denied a job or similar. The op is being asked to jump through unnecessary hoops based on her assumptions made about her name.

The only way this would not be discriminatory would be if either a wrong box was ticked or if the company asked everyone for a share code. The latter would be incompetence rather than discrimination.

May be a silly question, but is there anything other than your name on the CV that might have led them to assume you were not British? Were you educated overseas, does your recent work history include companies and work placements outside the UK? I mean, regardless of your surname, if your education and work history is all UK, I can’t fathom why they would assume you might not be British?

I work in a similar role, and when checking Right to Work I have been guilty of looking at a name and assuming they’ll need a Share Code. We do get a lot of applicants who aren’t from the UK so…

Discrimination, especially racism, produces so much minimising on this site it's unreal....or maybe not and just a reflection of wider society.

I hear you and understand you OP. Sorry this happened to you.

The OP IS being asked for the right to work, she has been asked to provide the wrong piece of evidence though, based on assumptions made because of her name.

Not sure. They were so adamant they were right that they are probably finding ways around the questions now to prove they were right all along!

Even reading the OP properly would have suffice...

Jesus 🤦🏾‍♀️!

You don’t need to read the rest of the thread. Just read the OP again and properly this time.

Well you should have, then you wouldn't have looked silly.

It's really quite remarkable. And a bit depressing.

This has got to be the most frustrating thread I've ever read on Mumsnet.

The complete idiocy and lack of reading and comprehension skills is quite astonishing.

Either that, or as others have implied, there's a knee jerk defensiveness about anyone suggestingthat racist assumptions might be behind an error.

I see that you've already responded @Donotfitin , but I'd have been tempted to simply say:
"I'm not sure why you think I have a share code. I'm a British citizen. If you need a copy of my passport, please let me know"

You're right, it should be standard to ask for evidence of your right to work in the UK and then outline the options to satisfy the requirements.

There is a possibility there's been an error - if there's a high volume of recruitment or an earlier error or even a misreading - I once read an application question about the right to work in the UK wrong (tbh I just didn't read properly and ticked that I was sponsored).

If you want to query it, do it. I don't think it's profiling but I don't think it's something that should be happening so even if it was an error they can look at their process.

I mean, it's illegal from the employer not to check employees Rights to Work, so I would recommend that you flag this up with your HR instead.

In my current workplace I had to provide proof of right to work in the UK at the outset (which was my passport by default if that makes sense as I'm a UK citizen) everyone is asked and is just a step in their on boarding process. The next step was then other documents at which point I had to provide my passport again. Could you look at their recruitment policy to see if this is just the done thing or if they've made an exception for you?

Right! 😂😂😂

The OP has a very valid concern, but the justifications/denial/ignorance and attempt at gaslighting becomes so comical, I can no longer find words.

Why make yourself look so stupid? Even on an anonymous forum it's just embarrassing 😂.