outlawing age discrimination

[flammableBen]

on one hand she is saying people should be selected as individuals and on the other hand in the act  Harman suggests that Women and Ethnic minorities should be picked over white men ... and has made it legal for firms to do so ... okay this is an imbalance but this is a pretty artificial way to rectify the problem ... and smacks of positive discrimination to me

You won't be aloud to take legal action if you've been discriminated against (only during an employment process?) and you're a white male. If I heard radio4 correctly when I was making a cup of tea this morning. So basically legislation to allow positive discrimination, but not really forcing it.

I'll never get a job now.

[Gazza's Fat Mate]

So if I was a white male over 75 i'm buggered I can't get a job in b & q because some ethinc will get it and to top it off I can't even go and take the job he left in his own country becuase I can't get travel insurance.

[genf_stfc]

you know in football programmes,  where they list the squad and sometimes say stuff like age, height, weight etc - is that illegal ?

[oxford_fan]

B&Q are one of the few firms who would employ said 75 year-old.

They employ the lady who lives over the road from me in Oxford, and she is very obviously a complete loon. Poor old Sonia.

[flammableBen]

you know in football programmes,  where they list the squad and sometimes say stuff like age, height, weight etc - is that illegal ?

nope

[ghanimah]

So, I presume it's ok to vote BNP now, as their policy is only 'positive discrimination' for whites?

[flammableBen]

Yes, definitely ok to vote BNP now.

[ghanimah]

Although, I wonder, as the bill is not due to be proposed until the end of the year, if this 'news item' is just not another headline designed to detract away from other controversial measures about to be implemented soon - keep an eye on the 'small news' on the BBC

[Barry Scott]

"Listen to us, we are the law, you will do as we say, and you cannot now, ever, in any way, discriminate against people who are old and less capable of doing certain things.

"Now get to work cleaning those skyscrapers, flying those planes and fighter jets, driving those tanks, being bodyguards to the royals, feeding those lions, working on building sites, carrying out brain surgery and building computer chips. Earn us our tax. And that includes you wrinkly. Now put down that walking stick, stop shaking and get to work. And change those trousers; you've wet yourself again."

This ageism thing really is ludicrous. I love the stupid wording that's being used "outlawed".

Wonder where this leaves footballers? And drivers for that matter, Old people SHOULD be retested for competency, yet i presume this is now not allowed? Okay, so what about youngsters losing their license after 6 points?

[Phil_S]

WTF does this shoddy Govn think they have to micro manage every aspect of our lives, They rob us blind left right and centre, & use the money to buy the votes from their hard core support, & in my view are a bunch of hypocrites.
They shed crocodile tears about Mugabe, who descriminated against the white minority in Zimbabwee, & then do the same thing. They critisise his lack of democracy but stifle it here over Europe.  (I'm not supporting Mugabe, if it were up to me he'd go the same way as Sadaam)
Discrimination is wrong. End of. But why then is it ok to tell someone he hasn't got the job because he's white & how would the other guy he got the job because of the colour of his skin.
Does that mean that MM has got to pick his team with this rubbish in mind.
This positive descrimination stuff does my head in. Some might see it as POSITIVE, But I still see it as DISCRIMINATION.

[BANGKOK RED]

I don't agree with discrimination.

Although should I be going on a long coach journey and have 2 choices: A 65 or a 40 year old then I'll go with the 40 yr old thanks. That's not discrimination in my mind, just plain common dog.

The South Park Episode where they take driving licencses away from OAP's springs to mind here.

[Bushey Boy]

I laiugh and laugh at teh EU and Labour every day! So I am advised to higher a black women who is a minority instead of a white bloke who applies? Fuck that

[flammableBen]

I laiugh and laugh at teh EU and Labour every day! So I am advised to higher a black women who is a minority instead of a white bloke who applies? Fuck that

Yeah, apart from that's not what the new legislation says.

[Bushey Boy]

Nah it says that if you have two applicants, one a man and one a women, they would not do you for discrimination if you choose a women over the man of equal experiance/qualifications.  The legislation in this country is strangling businesses.

I may come across as a joker Ben but do not ignore legislation

[Bogus Dave]

I thought it was just advising people what to do, rather than flat out ordering them