I'm from the government and I'm here to help you...
Equality watchdog wants 'spot checks' at work - Telegraph
Britain's equality watchdog wants tough new powers to tackle employers who fail to hire or promote staff from "disadvantaged" groups.
Under the plans, inspection teams would carry out "spot checks" to ensure that companies were obeying discrimination laws...
Under the plans, inspectors from the EHRC would be empowered to carry out spot checks at any workplace - those where there was cause for concern or firms which had done nothing wrong.
In an interview, Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said: "What business wants is the sort of regulator that makes competition fair, rewards people who really try and do well, leaves people who are getting on with it alone, and turns the heavy artillery on the people who are cheating. I hate the idea that we are waiting for people to make a mistake - I would like us to be an organisation that helps people to do the right thing."
What business wants is the right to employ the best person for the job, if a firm decides to only employ knuckledragging BNP members that should be its choice, but if left to the ruthless nature of a free market a competitor who employed better people, whatever their "minority", would soon see it out of business.
