Our thanks to Warren for this on the BBC website. He writes:
“To the best of my knowledge, Birmingham City Council ran out of money as it was forced to settle ‘equality’ payments…through not applying merit bonuses ‘fairly’ across the board.
This sort of thing was shaping up in Scotland a few years back. Female council employees were stirring it up that they were ‘denied’ bonuses associated with male ‘craft’ jobs. “This blatant discrimination has to end,” said Union leader Helen Meldrum. (she looks nice…)
What happened to common sense? If the ladies want a bonus associated with being a lift engineer, why not serve an apprenticeship and become one?
And now that Birmingham have run out of money, the ‘solution’ seems to be to take between 6 and 8 grand out of the pockets of the bin MEN. Can’t see many women champing at the bit to make themselves available for the bonuses (if any) associated with that particular job.
This spurious ‘equality’ mullarky is well on its way to bankrupting the country.”
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Reminds me of those supermarket check-out hens who wanted – and got – equal pay with the blokes using fork-lifts and muscle to hump pallets about in the warehouse. Always they want to same pay (and more), never do they want the same actual job or conditions.
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Indeed. And the stores responded as they should have, by replacing check-out staff (mostly women) with self-service tills, which I always use – much faster. So women’s greed resulted in redundancy.
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Often the decades long “stalled productivity” in the UK is brought up. One significant cause of this is the complexities of the british versions of DEI. There are of course the problems associated with “covering” maternity leave, carers leave and sick leave (women average twice the sick leave of men) then there’s “flexible working” which invariably involves less actual working, followed by “work life balance” and now WFH (simply not turning up to work at all). Add in reduced standards in many industries because you can’t have different standards for men and women so you have to go for the lowest for all. Then recruiting and promoting on the basis of quotas to achieve some sort of “balance” between sexes or “representation” of the general population, which again means lowering standards as you deliberately exclude the groups where there are many candidates. Add in “equivalent value” and the like where the market in terms of supply and demand for labour is completely ignored and jobs hard to recruit to are supposed to be paid at the same rates as those people line up for, just because a Judge says so. In fact an ever growing raft of drags on productivity that do indeed mean “well on its way to bankrupting the country” In local councils the sorts of processes that hit Birmingham (and Glasgow) so hard were why Councils “outsourced” so much. Because the there weren’t “comparator” occupations to cushy office jobs in the same employer if all the jobs were done by private or “arms length” companies. So the recruitment and retention issues were those companies’ issues not the council’s. Though the “big cases” trundling through courts from Asda, Tesco, Morrisons hit the headlines there are many smaller companies that either have or will have to “settle”. While it is ironic that the “checkout” jobs will go (Aldi and Lidl for instance have few as most jobs require being able to multi task, and curiously both have a noticeably higher proportion of male staff) overall the effect across the economy of this pandering to feminist demands for equality of outcome (and often just plain time off work) rather than opportunity and effort mires our economy in low standards, high costs, low skill and low effort. The problems with WFH, NEET youth on disability benefits just the latest examples of this malaise. Almost all exclusively driven by the feminist lobby.
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Excellent analysis of our ‘productivity’ malaise!
Women also have an utter inability to think strategically, unless the outcome is perceived to be of female benefit. (Kept my eyes open during 4 decades in the workforce.)
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