Comments on: A nine-word summary of what is wrong with so much of our tabloid journalism http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/07/nine-word-summary-of-what-is-wrong-with.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Lee Griffin http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/07/nine-word-summary-of-what-is-wrong-with.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1231 Lee Griffin Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:06:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1824#comment-1231 It is a ridiculous headline but then half the Bill is a ridiculous waste of time. Employers could already choose between two equal employees as long as they didn't give discriminatory reasons for doing so. <br/><br/>This bill just legalises discrimination and I'm afraid that the equality lobby may be left blushing when employers use this to purposefully keep blacks, women and other minorities out of a job because of internally rationalised measures of equality.<br/><br/>I'd certainly be able to support it much better if it dropped the discrimination factor, and stopped taking power AWAY from employees by forcing employers to share their wage data. It is a ridiculous headline but then half the Bill is a ridiculous waste of time. Employers could already choose between two equal employees as long as they didn’t give discriminatory reasons for doing so.

This bill just legalises discrimination and I’m afraid that the equality lobby may be left blushing when employers use this to purposefully keep blacks, women and other minorities out of a job because of internally rationalised measures of equality.

I’d certainly be able to support it much better if it dropped the discrimination factor, and stopped taking power AWAY from employees by forcing employers to share their wage data.

]]> By: Julian H http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2008/07/nine-word-summary-of-what-is-wrong-with.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1230 Julian H Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:08:00 +0000 http://localhost/wp28/?p=1824#comment-1230 I was intending on blogging on that headline when I saw it - but couldn't decide if it was hilarious, moronic, disturbing, or a combination of the three.<br/><br/>Probably a combination of the three.<br/><br/>In fairness, I believe it was in the Daily Express, which only a very small proportion of the population takes seriously, no? I was intending on blogging on that headline when I saw it – but couldn’t decide if it was hilarious, moronic, disturbing, or a combination of the three.

Probably a combination of the three.

In fairness, I believe it was in the Daily Express, which only a very small proportion of the population takes seriously, no?

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