Just who the hell are these people...
and why do we have the joy of paying them..

this is such bull shite..



TONY Abbott has rubbished a draconian new Australian Human Rights Commission push to set new gender workforce quotas, labelling it “anti-men”.

Under new sex quotas set by the Australian Human Rights Commission, government contractors would be forced to employ a workforce consisting of at least 40 per cent women.

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins has told the federal government to take “disruptive action’’ and make private sector contractors hire more women, to help close the 16 per cent pay gap between male and female workers.

“Pull your head in,” the former prime minister said of Ms Jenkins, during an interview with Sydney radio 2GB.

“We absolutely have to give women a fair go but some of this stuff sounds like it’s just anti-men.”




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Under the plan, companies that fail or refuse to recruit similar numbers of men and women risk losing lucrative government contracts in the gender-bending experiment intended to boost women’s pay but which business groups have warned could mean a bad outcome for taxpayers and tougher conditions for small businesses.

Ms Jenkins wants government agencies to include a clause in contracts requiring “demonstrated efforts to improve gender balance’’ — with targets of 40 per cent women.

Contractors would have to prove that they have “gender-balanced shortlists’’ for job ­interviews.

“This means that the gender balance in the organisation would be 40 per cent men and 40 per cent women, with the remaining 20 per cent unallocated to allow for flexibility,’’ Ms Jenkins said.

“I would want to see evidence that organisations had made extra efforts to reach these targets in recruitment, for example through gender-balanced shortlists.

“In male-dominated industries I would want to see data that indicated an upward trend in the recruitment and retention of women over time.’’

The controversial gender quotas would be a blow to businesses in male-dominated industries such as construction, electricity and water supply, and manufacturing, where blokes make up at least 80 per cent of the workforce.

But companies with feminised workforces — such as cleaning, catering and social services — would also be forced to hire more men to win government work.

Women make up a massive 80 per cent of the workforce in healthcare and 70 per cent of workers in education.





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can you believe a trumped up group calling themselves "Human Rights".. telling business people who to employ....

this is so far out of hand....its not even funny..