Thread: The Equality Bill.
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Old 20-11-2009, 13:20   #15
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Re: The Equality Bill.
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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
You missed out the bit where amount of experience comes into it. Should a woman with only a month's experience be paid the same as a man with 10 years experience? IIRC there has been a recent ruling that time spent not doing the job counts as experience gained doing the job, of course this only applies to women, which is the reason it applies in the first place.

The 'equality' only goes in one direction. The comparison will only be made to raise female wages to meet male wages, but not to raise male wages to meet female wages.
Experience does not equal ability nor value. I know lots of people who have been in their positions for a very long time, but are not very good at their jobs and I know a lot of people who have been in their jobs for a very short time, but are better. Take, for example, Lewis Hamilton and Heinz-Harald Frentzen. Heinz has been driving in Formula One for many years and not won anything significant, whereas Lewis won the championship in only his second season (should have done it his first, but hey-ho). Surely you don't expect Heinz to be paid more than Lewis.

Did I miss something in the bill, which said this only applies to women?
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