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The answer to your first question is that over the years plenty of people have experienced discrimination when it comes to applying for jobs of having an accent - be it regional, class or national. People also face discrimination on account of their name and their address. And in Northern Ireland you are not allowed to ask someone where they went to school on an application from because of discrimination on the grounds of religion. All of this is well-documented and is supported by plenty of anecdotal information.
However, maybe you are more interested in knowing whether anyone has been unable to secure any type of employement at all on the basis of their accent alone. I doubt it, but I'm sure that's really the point in the context of this discussion.