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An entire industry has been spurred on nurturing and concocting grievances, taking the opportunity to divert taxes into pet schemes and hey presto... the money ends up in the pockets of self-elected equality csars and an army of futile, purile, talentless, unthinking agents.

- Anthony Moore, london, 07/08/2009 19:32
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Discrimination is discrimination, even when you stick a word such as 'positive' in front of it. Any selection proceedure must be based on who is the best candidate in terms of ability NOT what their gender, colour, faith etc.

- Ed, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Setting one sector of the population against another is a well tried socialist tactic. They talk about social justice when what they mean is class war. Positive discrimination is till discrimination and in this form is a poisonous proposal with, as in all revolutionary change, unforeseeeable consequences. Of course that will not bother La Harman when she retires to her estates with the support of her family's money and whatever she has left over from her parliamentary claims. The Bruitish people deserve a better class of politician than this.

- Peter Haldane, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Don't agree! It must be the best candidate, otherwise it is definitely discrimination. And anyway, what if you ended up with someone like Harman or Jacqui Smith? Would you want to?

- Lin, ILFORD ENGLAND, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Let us remember. This is the woman who in Parliamentary debate came up with the immortal line "Margaret Thatcher did nothing for women" - apart from showing that women didn't need positive descrimination to get to the top if they were good enough.......

- Atropos, Hythe, Kent, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I get it! Sex discrimination is a terrible thing, unless it's against men.

- Kate, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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These same rules for "equally qualified" individuals applying for work would cover other groups, such as ethnic minorities,have already been unfairly used. Our local police force gave prior instruction to ethnic minority applicants on the interview process as well as the entrance exam and even when UK born applicants still did better they were not employed

- Dave Filton, Bristol England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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What if you have two equally qualified candidates and you might actually want to have the man because he is a man?

- Bloke, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Can this muppet Harman just get over herself and her guilt about being born into a priviledged background and stop taking it out on the general public - After the next election can she just disappear into the wealthy background from 'whence' she came!

- David Grey, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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And then we will have demands that HH must be made PM because she's a woman and we've only ever had one of those before. She's obviously never heard of a meritocracy.

- Colin, Mora, Sweden, 07/08/2009 18:32
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It doesn't specify which groups qualify for positive discriminination in this way - how about men with beards, or left-handed people ?

- Roy Grainger, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This is rich coming from a woman who has failed at every ministerial job she had. I was born into poverty, but managed to work my way up to a well paid, senior management job through hard work and perseverance. I have always employed the best PERSON for the job, regardless of gender, colour or creed. Imposing a law like this on hard pressed employers can only worsen the damage this government has done to businesses, and this ridiculous woman thinks she can take over the top job from Brown - probably the only one who could do it worse than him.

- Phil, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Dear God help us - so now it is ok to discriminate if Comrade Harmen agrees!!! but not if she does not. Employment legislation is already a very significant burden on employers, and activly discourages companies from taking people on. In the public sector, this will be a field day more more claims for compensation and cost all taxpayers more.

If Comrade Person Harmen had not realised we are in a very deep economic mess(made worse by Gordon and Alistair)and to come out with possible legislation like this will only make mattes worse. I am afraid that this is typical of the problems that arise when Politicians do not have sufficent experience behond the Westminster village and the Public Sector.

Carry on like this and we will have a middle class, taxpayers revolt. - Probably about time.

- Jeremy E, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This has got to be a bad joke.

How can you ever justify discrimination? I agree that people should be able to choose the right person for the job, and if part of that jobs role is better fulfilled by a women/man then that should be taken into consideration.

What about cases where the work force is mainly female, right now a qualified man who is turned down for this position would be able to file action, this bill would remove that right.

I personally can’t think of that many jobs that are gender specific.

- Robin, Cambridge, 07/08/2009 18:32
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You almost hear the comments now - "She only got the job because she is a woman". A sure fire way to ensure conflict in the workplace. Unions are dead so Labour have to invent another method of destroying working relations.
Bring on the election.

- Dave Davies, Basingstoke, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Sorry - I disagree. The job should go to the 'best person' irrespective of whether they're male or female. I think women being favoured is actually a step backwards ...

- Marianne (Uk National And Tax-Payer), SW France, 07/08/2009 18:32
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What other bright idea's does this muppet have? Her party have already fleeced UK taxpayers for every penny they can without any more brainless idea's. HH can pick up her P45 along with the rest of her useless party and the sooner the better

- Mike, London England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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No surprise here,after all she will be unemployed very soon and with the mess Labour have left the economy in she will do whatever it takes to get the odds on her side to get work.I do feel sorry for the idiots that employ this hopeless woman.

- David, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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The best person for the job not discrimination. Typical bilge from a party that has been corrupted by being in power too long.

- Tony Johnson, Hythe UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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C Croft:"Just shows we are being hoodwinked into accepting something that will change this country into something between China and Nigeria."- What, like Somalia? Well, a large number of the World's most (historically) infamous pirates did hail from these islands!

- Keith Lonsdale, Doncaster, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Well said, Harriet, but, Black women should get the job before white women.

- Ted, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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And what has the 'all women' selection panels achieved within Nu-Labour itself?. What has happened to 'Blairs Babes' appointed to Cabinet level purely because they were women back in 1997?. Ms Harman herself is one of those appointed, and if she is the best example of an all female selection process we are in much deeper trouble than we thought.

- Pete, South London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Clearly Harriet got in on positive discrimination rather than ability. I have never heard such rubbish. The very nature of selecting a candidate just because she is woman is sexual discrimintation. There is nothing positive about discrimination and it should not be applied anywhere. People should get the job on merit and ability (then we would be able to get rid of the idiots in the Labour party!)

- Gareth, Hampshire, 07/08/2009 18:32
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You always need to read between the lines with this Harperson. What you hear or read is never what her true intensions are. Why else would her warped idea of fairness always end up kicking men in the teeth?

If there is a man and a woman applying for a job who are equally qualified and have the same experience and appear equally available and committed to the job, this is a situation that has probably never occurred in practice, and if it did, it is up to the employee to make the choice. If the employer decides on employing the man or the woman, there is no way sex-discrimination law can be used to force that employer to employ the person of the other sex instead.

When Harperson says that the employer can now take on the female under these circumstances without falling foul of sexual-discrimination law, she is wasting her breath, because if that employer wanted to take the woman on because she is a woman under those conditions there was nothing to prevent the employer from doing that before her new legislation.

Harperson seems to think that employers don't know what is best for their business and that she knows better - that is, females should be given jobs ahead of males in the interests of employee diversity and the health of the ecomomy.

Her thinking is clearly being twisted by her resentmen of men yet again. Someone of her kind should not be a government minister - especially not the equality minister.

- Eric Legge, Ongar, England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Well some men are very stupid; they marry women like her.

- Mickyinlondon, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Scotty, London-"turning equal opportunity into a pantomine is neither progressive for the advancement of the economy or society in general."
"progressive" has long since become a euphemism for twisted by politically-correct left-liberal dogma, in that sense Harridan Harpy's ideology is all of the above!

- Keith Lonsdale, Doncaster, 07/08/2009 18:32
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The ruling elite: overpaid, overeducated, underwhelming.

- Trunk, US, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Please just go away and leave us alone, Harriet. It was fun to laugh at you for a while, but now you're just irritating.

- Alex C, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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What, more banality from this vacuous airhead? Is there no end to the mediocrity she spouts on a daily basis? We must hope she becomes next leader of her leftie rag bag of a party after they're kicked out next year- with her as leader we could be sure that they'd be out for a generation. She surely must be the most deluded politician since....ummm...nope, nobody quite beats her to that title.

- Richard, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Doesn't make sense. This woman is deluded and crazy. She needs help!

So it's OK to descriminate against men but NOT against women.

Utter lunacy from a very confused woman.

- Margy, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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As soon as Gordon is out of the country, up pops Hattie with her potty positive discrimination laws . Is it because Gordon has gone that she is making her pitch for the leadership Or has he gone because he can't stand listening to this rubbish ? Either way I would like to propose Hattie as the next leader of the Labour party and Prime Minister.

- Michael, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Trying to catch the womens vote are we? You will need to try a lot harder than that.
rest assured, this initiative will never see the light of day as there will not be a Labour government after June next year.

- Dave Davies, Basingstoke, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I work in an environment where men are in a minority (sometimes 7:1, female/male). Does this mean that I, as a man, might find it easier to get a new job? There are lots of professions like mine (nursing, primary school teaching, PR, marketing etc).

- Andy Skinner, Putney, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Presumably David Cameron doesn`t agree with HARMANization - that is, he will decide that the best PEOPLE for governmental posts will be based on their ABILITY rather than their ANATOMY?

- Darius Midwinter, London UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I employ the right person for the job, man or woman, end of story.

- Ian, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Reminds me of Nero playing the harp while Rome burns around him and falls to destruction. Fast forward to day with the political correct Labour party.

- Joe, Swanley Kent, 07/08/2009 18:32
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God help the hetrosexual white english male in the UK today; the poor bloke has now become extinct.

- Mickyinlondon, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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And they wonder why they are so far behind in the polls.

- Neil Johnson, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This "positive action" does nothing but frustrate and anger both male and female, black and white. Like cream, the best will rise to the top regardless of race, colour, gender or anything else. So do be quiet woman and let us get rid of you quietly but "positively" before you do more damage.

- Joan, London UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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She's living proof not to go in this direction.

- Chris, Woking. UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This woman is an absolute disgrace. Any man discriminated against by her evil regime should sue right up to the European Court. Prejudice and bile pure and simple.

- Thomas, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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The Met Police are a good example of this, giving jobs to women who haven't got a clue...doing it purely for statistics..pathetic.

- Rosie, watford, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Hasn't "Harriet Harmented" got anything better to waste taxpayers and business's money on - 1 word Pathetic!!

- William, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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When this idiot Harman was talking about domestic violence a while ago she let slip her feelings about men by stating "these MEN must be dealt with", however women also beat up their partners. A friend of mine used to turn up at work sometimes with many bruises after being beaten by his girlfriend!

- Peter, Watford UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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When it comes to it, if I have 2 candidates for a job with equal qualifications the decision as to whom I should employ will not be based on gender but simply who I would find it easiest to work with. I would not employ a female simply because she is a female.

- John Plank, Crawley Down, England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I think it was her intention to use it to shoe horn her way into the top job in the Labour party and I say good luck to her. I think she should be given all the encouragement people can muster in this quest and thus ensure the complete annihilation of the Labour party at the next general election. Go the Harpy

- Paul, Essex, England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This is so typical of Labour and conservative party's.
Sweep the real problem of unemployment under the carpet and turn peoples minds to equality.
2+ million unemployed, thousands of immigrants entering our country, rising benefits, rising national debt, higher taxes and not a whisper in the Commons by any MP.
Just shows we are being hoodwinked into accepting something that will change this country into something between China and Nigeria.

- C Crofts, BLACKPOOL ENGLAND, 07/08/2009 18:32
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You either want EQUALITY or you don't ! So called positive discrimination is just as bad as negative because it just reinforces the perceived differences. Discrimination is discrimination however you spin it.

Unlike cloud-cuckoo-land where the public sector live and work, those of us in the real world of the private sector simply hire on the best fit for the job. Things are never truly equal even if two candidates have the same qualifications there are many other factors like fit with the company culture, etc

- Barry, woking, GB, 07/08/2009 18:32
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She seems the ideal candidate for a job as tea"person".

- P Doff, paris france, 07/08/2009 18:32
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maybe this is how she thinks she can finally assume leadership of the labour party?

- Scotty, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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If my parents work hard and pay tax, I can lose my local school place to child from an unemployed family on benefits because they are more 'worthy'

If I apply for a job, I can lose out to my 'equals' because of my gender and/or colour.

If I struggle through and get a good job or make something of myself I will be taxed more with less pension benefits.

My council can spy on me, my government can tap my calls and read my emails whenever they like. I have to ask permission to protest against them.

At what point can I claim asylum in another country because I am being persecuted by the regime in this country ?

- Sandy, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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By what logic should a woman have a job over a man? Its fairly obvious to all that she got her present job because she is a woman. She doesn`t possess any other qualifications that makes her suitable to be a minister. Just goes to show what happens when you promote someone beyond their capabilties solely on the grounds of their sex. Time to call it a day Harriet if this is the best Labour can come up with after nearly 12 years in government. We are in deep doo doo and all she wants to do is employee an army of civil servants to check up on employers to make sure they are conforming to her dictates. Oh, I get it, its a NuLabour job creation scheme!

- Brian Gare, Norfolk Gorleston, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Harman, its quiet evident you're as mad as a hatter.

- Mike, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Only a bunch of air-headed neo socialists would consider discrimination of any sort as being “positive”. These arrogant yoyos, convinced that they own the moral high ground, have engaged in a full scale bullying campaign of social engineering for a decade. They have left behind a swathe of economic and social destruction that will take a lifetime to fix. When will the complacent and gullible UK voter waken?

- Bee, Littlehampton, West Sussex, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This woman is so out of her depth - more local counciller than MP - all this nonsense of calls for transparency.... has she been transparent in her expenses/ husband fraud? Get rid people of the UK. We deserve more!

- David, SOUTHAMPTON, 07/08/2009 18:32
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More prejudice against men from Harriet Hatesmen. We pay more tax, get less benefits & healthcare, die younger, are 20 times as likely to die as a result of our work than women & almost certain to lose our homes & children in a divorce.. Who is the disadvantaged sex then?

- Simon Morris, Lichfield UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Labour must make this woman leader of the party when Brown is shoved aside. It would ensure that Labour could not win an election.

- William, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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The woman is mad. She should be certified insane and locked up.

- M Stafford, Manchester, England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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While were at it, let's follow the lead of the government and promote people to their level of incompetence.

- Simon, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I wish that awful woman would shut up ! She always was a marxist troublemaker even when she was at university.

I made it in life because I worked hard and made a career and never once did I play the 'female card' neither would I.

When I recruit management trainees, I go for quality and I couldn't care less what sex they are !

- Kathy Doyle, London - England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Let's discriminate against this appalling creature at the ballot box, hopefully, next year.

- Paul, Tonbridge, 07/08/2009 18:32
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The woman is obviously a frustrated man-hating nutter. What's with the husband? She is vile. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Roll on 2010.

- Judith C, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Yes, well NuLabour did this with key positions in the government, look where we are now......

- Darius Midwinter, London UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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You either believe in equality or you don't.

She, clearly, does not.

What ever happened to "Two wrongs don't make a right"?

- Rogan, Irving, 07/08/2009 18:32
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If she, or any of her kind, had even the slightest ability, intelligence and strength of character shown by a certain Mrs Thatcher, then she would get my support. But, she and her like minded 'sisterhood', will never be able to come close to that great lady.

- Paul, South London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Does Batty Hatty ever venture out into the real world where many thousands of people of both sexes are on short-time working or joining the swelling ranks of the unemployed? No discrimination there. Male or female - qualified or not - out they go! Too much to hope that Batty Hatty will ever join them.

What an assent she is to the Conservatives.

- Jan, Tottenham, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This is assuming there are any jobs at all soon!

- Simon, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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What ever happened to the best person for the job.

- Shallotman, Basildon, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Here is the real twist of the knife, if a man who is the best candidate gets the job, and the less appropriate second place candidate is a woman, then she will be able to go to the tribunal as a victim of NON DISCRIMINATION on the basis that the law allowed the employer to give her the job but they didn't positively discriminate.

If you get one or two cases like that no man will ever get a job again in this pitiful little country.

- Ap, Bristol, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Wow, hated by my own government.

- Gary, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Teel you what, why don't we add a "social advantage" audit as well. Then if someone like Harriet Harman, privately educated at the elite St Paul's Girls school is competing for a job against me, educated at a bog-standard state school, the employers can choose to discriminate against those who have such an unfair advantage as an excellent private education?

Do Labour really need to know why they are about to lose political control of London at the next General Election?

- Danny, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This woman has obviously had some seriously disappointing sex. What other explanation could there possibly be?

- Archie, Thrapston, England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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See that's what they want you to do-get distracted from the real issue-which is a disgraceful government in complete power.Don't waste your breath on commenting on what this or that airhead has to say.Ignore it!

- Amoreno, Luxembourg, 07/08/2009 18:32
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'Opposition' should no longer pretend to oppose, but publish a list of laws for simple repeal in their first hundred days. Civil service might care to note this in drafting. Otherwise, it's pitchfork-time for the lot of them.

- Steve, London, England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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What a lot of tosh. Employers should employ the best person for the job regardless of gender, creed or colour. In her case, heavens knows why she was employed at all, still can't do the Tories any harm, the longer she stays the more chances Cameron has of winning the election.

- Strongbow Sullivan, Paris, France, 07/08/2009 18:32
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If two candidates are EQUALLY qualified, how could a discrimination case every be brought successfully? What Harperson is trying to introduce is positive discrimination, whereby a women who is LESS qualified than a man can be given a job without the employer being sued.
The example she gives is completely disingenuous and misleading.

- Gary Fox, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Pure Nu-Labour. Why is it a good thing to discriminate in favour or against anybody? Surely the same thing. Who decides who should be favoured, the Labour politburo? Should women's votes count for more than men's as well? Remind me why I live and pay tax in this country again......?

- Mark, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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'Hatty the Hypocrite' strikes again.

After 12 years in power, many with her as 'Inequality Minister', what's brought on this sudden 'inequality'?
Pending elections perhaps?

She'll be telling us next that it's the rightful 'turn' of a woman to be PM.
Who might that preferred candidate be we wonder?

Oddly she conveniently doesn't also mention rebalancing the 'equality' of pensions provision parity between MPs [and public sector state workers] and us private plebs!

- Dave, cumbria, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Harriet Harman, with the country in dire strait, this is insignficant. Your idea is insignficant and you are insignficant, do something useful yourself and the nation, please do NOT speak!

- Max, Twickenham, 07/08/2009 18:32
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What a sad state of affairs that she has to say something like this - yet again - power seems to have gone to her head. In her world, the working male is likely to end up as a Munchkin!

- Dawn Bonham, Northampton, 07/08/2009 18:32
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She tried a similar thing with race. If a white man and a black man are equally qualified, a company can hire the black man solely because of his race. Harman consistently tries to discriminate against white men. As a white man with white nephews, I can never vote for the Labour Party - it wants to discriminate against me and my family. Harman is introducing apartheid!

- Anthony, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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So why would a man want to vote Labour?

- Jw, London UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I can only assume that this policy arose out of a last-ditch effort to try and win the next election; 50% at least of the electorate are women, so it must follow that this is a super idea which will appeal to all of them, so we'll get back in next time!Ho ho ho.

Well, as correspondents today have clearly demonstrated, it will backfire on New Labour. I'd find this sort of thing funny but for the fact that Harriet Harman is serious about it.

All that positive discriminatiuon results in is mediocrity but if you look at all New Labour policies of this ilk,that's what they are aiming for.What we need is a meritocracy not mediocrity.

- Steven Dale, London, England, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Part of the problem with this divise 1970's style deluded dogma is that it serves to undermine those it seeks to protect.

what better way to increase sniggering in the office, reinforce the idea that women are not equal, that to create a situation whereby those who might feel inclined to adopt such positions have such clear cut ammunition?

what's more, how is this meant to make a star performing woman who has it made it to the top, through talent and hard work feel? it's ok, you didn't really make it on your own, Aunt Harriet's here to make sure you get that extra boost in the backdoor, so that you can pretend you really are good enough.

turning equal opportunity into a pantomine is neither progressive for the advancement of the economy or society in general. but then neither is Ms Harman.

- Scotty, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Thank goodness the 'Thought Police' have no idea what I'm REALLY thinking when interviewing possible candidates for the job. I actually choose the best person for the role and go with my instincts and do not get bogged down with their sex, colour, age, attractiveness etc. Can you imagine the ballyhoo had a man unveiled such measures. Ms Harman should be ashamed of herself - it is women like her that make me stick up for men every time - she is so irritating she needs to be scratched !

- Mandi, London, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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And there I was thinking that all these years we had been aiming for true equality, which surely should be expressed as "the best person for the job" - man or woman!

Or would this be too simple?

- Edward Thompson, Bedfordshire, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I worked in what was a the time a Labour policy-ridden public sector body which went out of its way to be inclusive and equal, in both gender and race. Only problem was the organisation was dysfunctional, not having a clue what successful delivery looked like - that entity was and still is the LDA. The damage done was so severe by Labour acolytes that I left believing there there was no hope of rescuing the organisation, other than getting rid of it.

- Mike, london, 07/08/2009 18:32
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This woman is evil. End of story.

- Tom W, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Harmen is the most deluded woman on the planet. She has failed in every cabinet job she fas occupied. Only one year to go before we are rid of this moron her cretin boss

- Trevn, Abu Dhabi, 07/08/2009 18:32
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She (Harperson) said: "If you have got two equally qualified candidates, you might actually want to have the woman because she is a woman." Please, Ms Harridan Harpy, tell me which part of the definition of "equality" best describes this latest piece of left-liberal PC drivel?

This woman is a raving lunatic, but there is a bright side; no self-respecting white heterosexual Christian male will ever vote for Britain-hating NuLiebour ever again.

- Keith Lonsdale, Doncaster, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Is there anyone this woman does not discriminate against?

I'd hate to be an able bodied, white, English male if she ever became Number 1......

- Lb, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Harriet, Harriet, what damage you do to the cause you purport to promote. Are you really so dense as to not see this sort of statement and dictat only serves to encourage discrimination against women. The best example you could set for women in the workplace is to actually do a good job yourself but somehow I feel I will be waiting a long while for that...

- Mikkiduk, Hackney, London, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I think really this shows you that she does NOT think much of her fellow woman: she is expecting us to fall for this garbage and vote Labour next time round in gratitude or whatever of it. No chance!

- Sarah Bradshaw, Enfield, Middx, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I think really this shows you that she does NOT think much of her fellow woman: she is expecting us to fall for this garbage and vote Labour next time round in gratitude or whatever of it. No chance!

- Sarah Bradshaw, Enfield, Middx, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I think really this shows you that she does NOT think much of her fellow woman: she is expecting us to fall for this garbage and vote Labour next time round in gratitude or whatever of it. No chance!

- Sarah Bradshaw, Enfield, Middx, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I think this silly, prissy lightweight is probably regarded with distaste by men and women equally.
The silver spoon seems to get caught everytime she opens her mouth

- Minnie, London, UK, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I thought discrimination was against the law...end of!!! she (it) or whatever she likes to class herself...is off her head!!!...get rid of it (her)!!! soon!!!

- Mark, Sidcup, 07/08/2009 18:32
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If an employer is forced to choose between equally qualified candidates for a position, maybe the decider would be the fact that a man is highly unlikely to get pregnant and have to take maternity leave.

- John W, hamilton canada, 07/08/2009 18:32
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Nobody tells me who I can and who I can't employ.
It's my company, it's my money and expertise that has built the company and I stand to lose everything if it folds, so I will make the final decision on who works for me, not this Government and certainly not this bloody Harriet Harperson. Who the hell does she think she is!

- Dean Page, Surrey, 07/08/2009 18:32
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I decide who i employ - Period.

If i dont like you, you dont get a job.

Simple.

- Sean Dempsey, hayes london., 07/08/2009 18:32
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I suppose the reverse will also be acceptable, men in teaching and care professions will be chosen over women?

- Sean Lynch, Horsham, W. Sussex, 07/08/2009 18:32
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