"MCP" <gf010w5035@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/16/race.gender?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
>
> Ministers are preparing an equality law that would allow bosses to give
> priority for jobs and promotion to women and black applicants
No problemo. Men should just have a general strike and shutdown the
country
as they did in 1926. Except today it would even be worse because there
would be no upper class men as there was in 1926 who would be willing or
able to run the trains etc.
Let's see how clever these females and liberals are when they can't go
anywhere and they're not getting deliveries of food or fuel :o)
>
> White men could be legally blocked from jobs or promotions under
> controversial government plans to help women and black employees achieve
> equality.
>
> Employers would be allowed to give jobs to qualified minority candidates
> in
> preference to other candidates under a change in discrimination law
being
> drawn up by the Equalities Minister, Harriet Harman. The 'positive
action'
> tactic, already used in the United States, has been a legal minefield in
> the
> UK and Harman's plans are likely to upset MPs who believe that merit
alone
> should determine who is hired.
>
> However, she believes radical changes are needed to help talented black
> and
> female candidates break through barriers in business and public life.
The
> positive discrimination plan would apply only in cases where two equally
> qualified candidates were after the same post, allowing the employer to
> tip
> the balance in favour of the minority candidate on grounds of race or
> gender.
>
> The proposals could also let universities select more female students in
> traditionally male-dominated subjects, such as the sciences.
>
> However, they are controversial even among some equal rights
campaigners,
> who argue they will have a limited effect and that action on equal pay
is
> more im****tant. 'How you would really hold that up in a court of law is
> not
> clear and, if it isn't, employers may be reluctant to use it. You are
> probably talking about a handful of cases,' said Katherine Rake of the
> Fawcett Society, which campaigns on equal pay.
>
> Employers can currently specify that they welcome applications from
> minority
> candidates, and promote themselves to specific groups. However, Avon
Fire
> Service, whose firefighters are 97 per cent white and male, triggered a
> storm of protest this year when it barred white applicants from an open
> day.
>
> The equalities bill would give new rights to mothers to breastfeed in
> public
> places such as cafes and trains and require golf clubs to give women
> players
> equal access. She is also pu****ng for powers to force companies to
conduct
> so-called pay audits, reviewing staff salaries to ensure they are not
> underpaying women, but this has met stiff resistance within the cabinet.
>
> Ministers are worried about a backlash from business over any changes on
> equal pay, but Harman is under pressure to match commitments from the
> Tories
> to introduce compulsory pay audits for employers that have been
> successfully
> sued by female employees.
>
> Harman, who addressed the TUC women's conference in Eastbourne last
week,
> told delegates she was still thinking about the issue of pay audits. A
> review by Labour peer Baroness Prosser two years ago concluded that the
> main
> cause of unfair pay was not outright ***ism but problems such as women
> opting for lower-paid professions or mothers choosing to go part-time.
>
>
> --
> Never trust a woman, how can you trust something that bleeds every 28
days
> and doesn't die!!!
>
>
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