Re: The Equality Bill.
 

This is why some companies have levels for pay, so people with a months experience can't get the same wages as someone who has been there 10 years.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

I think the OP that you refer to, used two quotes from the same source, but as the second quote started 'In effect', it gave the appearance(well, to those too prejudiced) of linking the two paragraphs.

IIRC a TV news item showed in the US where a racial 'equality' policy was brought in, firms that were only slightly under the required percentages of racial groups of employees didn't get government contracts.

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Experience means that you know the potential problems that can occur and how to solve them. There comes a point where further years of experience make little difference, but that point is not one month.

The Formula 1 analogy is a bit silly as it depends on the car that they are driving, experience gained in other driving categories, and whether you are 'allowed' to pass someone(Heidfeld?) on the final lap of the final race so that you can win the championship.

All previous mentions of this type of policy over the decades has involved comparing women's wages against men's wages, not the other way around.

Male refuse collectors in Leeds have had to go on strike because they are going to have their pay cut in order to match that of women who do different jobs. If the jobs are the same, why do so few(if any) women, do the refuse collecting jobs. As it can't be because they are not capable(after all, they are equal:rolleyes:), it must be that they are too lazy.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

Then come and live in Wales perhaps? Our heritage is alive and well, and I don't think any of us feel like strangers in our own country.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

Do they speak English, or will we have to learn Welsh?

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

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I'm wondering which of you gentlemen would have survived the day I just had...Without being done for GBH....;)

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

No, just checked. It is the same paragraph on the original statement on their website. There is no difference in the way it has been quoted by the OP. The article seems to equate "gender" with "colour."


I don't get why you raised the US bill and equated it to the one here. They are two completely different laws, in two completely different countries.

Nonsense. I have met people who have been in their jobs for decades and still don't know their arse from their elbows, whereas some young fresh employee runs rings around them. I am sure you have met some as well.

There is nothing wrong with the analogy. Frentzen has had many opportunities but didn't take them. That said, an analogy is not supposed to be a direct comparison, that is why they are called analogies and not direct comparisons. But it if it makes it easier, try Alonso and Hamilton, or Coulthard and Vettel, or Alonso and Schumacher.

That is because women's incomes have forever, been woefully behind those of men's, or am I wrong?

But there is nothing in the legislation that says:



This is about the local authority finding an excuse to save a shed load of money and nothing to with equality at all.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

I have no idea. Find out for yourself.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

The TV news report was a UK(BBC2 Newsnight?) report on the impact of UK proposal as already implemented in the US.
Depends on the type of job and whether the person has had any similar experience in a previous job.

Are you comparing pay for the same jobs or for different jobs?

IIRC there was a recent case where women were going to be given backdated pay on the grounds of equality, but men who had been doing the same job as those women at the same original pay as them were not going to get the backdated money. This is a classic example of equality only being one-way traffic.
Found the story I was thinking of.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

Nothing wrong with that on paper but everything this government touches results in tangled webs of bureaucracy, non jobs and red tape, this wont be any different, for instance what's the betting you have to have government snoopers doing your audit rather than the ones you already employ once a year.

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Don't really buy that argument, old Heinz Harald is already one of the best in the world at what he does or he wouldn't get a drive at all and if he had a car as good as Hamiltons he would surely have done significant things you know like Jenson Button this year, anyway I am not a fan of F1 so I'd prefer not to get drawn into a debate on it. Thanks ;)

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

I thought that was rather obvious, & considered Flyboy's question to be rhetorical...

How/when has our history been "deleted" in England?

How have we "given in" to other cultures?

Which laws and rules have been changed because "another culture" doesn't like them?

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

"too prejudiced" :confused:

Or perhaps lacking the ability to mind-read, as there was no indication that the two quotes were not linked, and no link to the source - could you please explain how readers of the post were supposed to know the two lines weren't linked.


Addendum - just read flyboy's post of 16:43 and they were linked; I wonder whose prejudices are showing now? ;)

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

no white lady's do lunch.. white gentlemen do the work so that the lady's don't need to.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

So you think that most readers of that post would have thought that the two issues were closely connected? Surely the point of Flyboy's comment is that he(/she?) recognised that they were not connected in that manner and that is what they were complaining about, rather than contributing to the topic under discussion.

Flyboy's post post @ 16:43 simply says that the OP's website says the same thing. That doesn't preclude the possibility that the text on the website could be the result of cut and paste of two quotes without reading how the 2nd quote started. The fact that the text is in two separate paragraphs, in itself shows a change of subject.

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

Straws, grasping, etc etc.....:D

Re: The Equality Bill.
 

What about our rights as ENGLISHMEN?