A nasty, cynical move to make English human rights subservient to business profits. The Deregulation Bill now in the Lords.
Are you black or gay and feel your firm discriminates against you? Are you disabled and find a company stops your right of access? Are you woman and you don’t get equal pay with a man?
Naturally you might expect the government’s independent champion the Equality and Human Rights Commission, to be on your side and prosecute firms who repeatedly failed you.
But a pernicious piece of legislation now going the House of Lords plans to put all this at risk by putting a nasty spanner in the works to hobble the very body that is supposed to stand up for your rights.
The Deregulation Bill– promoted as liberating business from silly bureaucratic rules – includes what sounds like a rather arcane provision saying that all regulators for the first time must consider the impact on economic growth before they launch criminal or civil proceedings ( see clauses 83/84)…
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