Quote Originally Posted by CrazyLemurs View Post
Then what kind of margin is someone paid less to? Would it depend on your skill level, so everyone not up to scratch is individually assessed to determine how much pay they should get?


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It's quite clear that it's a case by case basis. You can't just say 'Oh, because you're female, you're paid £5k less a year than that male' even if the female is some bulky woman that is much better at being a firefighter than a scrawny guy.

Personally, I would hire the people most skilled for the job then pay them initially all the same wage. (Fluctuations here and there for cost of living etc.) People that show increased effort etc. can have bonuses. But it depends on the situation, if the government is hiring female firefighters to meet quotas, that's ridiculous, why are we hiring less able people if we have more able people that are unemployed?

Also, it depends on the actual job and how you rate performance. How do you rate a firefighters performance? How many people they save? Or how many lives they don't save? And do you rate it on the firefighter themselves, or the people they are saving? Likewise with police officers, do you rate themselves, or the people they catch? It changes on each situation, like I believe teachers should not be rated purely based on results of students.

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Quote Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:- View Post
Nobody used to make those rules apart from those that needed them, and they were state occupations anyway - the Police service, the Fire service.

It used to work, it doesn't now. Sometimes I find the size of Police officers (both female AND male) utterly laughable now as some are literally tiny - how are they supposed to intimitate would-be offenders or even catch them? They can't.

It's just like you wouldn't apply equality laws to bouncer would you? because it'd be ridiculous to.
One of the Police officers that has our village as his primary focus area, let's just say he's a tad large. I mean, I'm sure he's a great guy, and he's great at some aspects of his job, but I'm sure even I could outrun him. Whilst I can see how people can start going on a discrimination rant, it only make sense to have the most suitable people in these lines of work.