Posts Tagged EHRC
Equality law’s billion pound paper-shuffle
Posted by Nick Cowen in Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Press Release, Race and Equality on 28/11/2011
‘Equalities industry’ undermines true equality
As youth unemployment rises to record levels, a new Civitas report reveals that British workplaces spend up to a billion pounds a year complying with clumsy equality legislation. The costs put particular strain on public sector organisations, as well as making it more difficult for businesses to create and retain jobs. Furthermore, these policies have made jobs less accessible to disadvantaged, marginal workers.
The Rise of the Equalities Industry, by sociology professor Peter Saunders, examines the operation of Britain’s equality laws and concludes that they are seriously flawed.
EHRC refuses Britain a fair hearing
Posted by Nick Cowen in Civil Liberty, Human Rights, Immigration, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness on 08/08/2011
The Equality and Human Rights Commission contributes very little to meaningful equality in Britain today and should be abolished, according to a new Civitas report. Added to the Government’s much trumpeted ‘bonfire of the quangos’, the EHRC would save the Treasury tens of millions of pounds at no obvious cost to the general public.
Small Corroding Words, by Jon Gower Davies, is a systematic critique of the philosophy, research and practice of the EHRC. It reveals serious flaws in the EHRC’s ‘triennial review’, How Fair Is Britain?, that was used to demonstrate unfairness in Britain. What the research actually shows are the statistical differences between some groups. This line of thinking entails, for example, taking the fact that men are more likely to die in work-related accidents than women as a sign of unfairness. (pp. 8-9) The EHRC inaccurately blames Britain for differences of this kind.
Equally Wrong
Posted by Nick Cowen in Economics, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Political Correctness on 01/02/2011
In October last year, the Equality and Human Rights Commission suggested that progress to close the gender pay gap was grinding to a halt. That December, the Office of National Statistics inconveniently noted ‘the biggest fall in the gender pay gap since the measure was first produced using the ASHE methodology in 1997’. This renders the EHRC’s predictions as reliable as the Met office’s in recent years. Curiously, this tremendous news has yet to penetrate very far into the consciousness of those calling for more Government intervention and legislation to close the gap. Could it be that our relatively flexible labour markets are already doing a great job at breaking down barriers to employment, at the very least for those women who want and choose to engage in full time work?