EU Referendum

[NeilyBoy]

A few facts for you guys:

-Switzerland has absolutely no designs on European integration. (I can't say the same with equal certainty for Norway but I'm 99.9recurring% on it)

-Britain leaving Europe wouldn't lose us all of our trade, but it would make imports from the Eurozone, our chief supplier of foreign goods, more expensive. The portion of our trade that we currently get because we are contractually tied into Eurozone trading would also dry up with no certainty that a demand would come from elsewhere.

-The invisible hand running the world is the one theorised by Adam Smith.

No idea why you have brought race into the argument, massive difference, race plays no part whatever in what a worker can and can't do, what a worker can and can't offer. Gender does.

So you appreciate small businesses have to sometimes penny pinch but are still quite happy to force laws upon them that could close one down? Absolute madness. Seriously, I hope you run your small firm one day so you can realise the nonsense you agree with forcing on hard working people. Can see this ending with a token 4ft women onto building sites and 7 foot blokes onto checkouts soon. Doesn't matter if that company camt finish its housing project does it as long as Sally and Becky are getting their maternity leave.

You have become so obsessed with equality you have lost any thought for common sense.

Nothing boils my blood like a tall checkout assistant...

What about single, pregnant women? How should they support themselves during the time that they take off to give birth and take care of the baby?

Speaking of the time that they take off:

This is from the govt website: "As an employee you have the right to 26 weeks of Ordinary Maternity Leave and 26 weeks of Additional Maternity Leave making one year in total. The combined 52 weeks is known as Statutory Maternity Leave." So a mandatory maximum of half your estimate. Sure some employers may offer their own, more generous scheme but it's actually quite common for career women to not take full leave and to return to work after only a few months. Now I've never been in the position of a small business manager with a financial Sword of Damocles dangling over my head as I juggle income and expenditure but I'd much rather an employee with the sort of drive that those women show than an equally well qualified man who doesn't have the same passion.

By the way: when you ran your small business, employing 6/7 people who's livelihoods were at risk of some tart opening her legs on the wrong day of the month, I imagine you and your underground pirate company had a much harder time of it than the legal declared companies who claimed the money back from the govt. Perhaps you should've gone legit.

-Please refer to this site before mouth breathing more made up responses to justify your discrimination-

[Rincewind]

Would this line of thinking also apply to disabled people. To employ a wheelchair bound person there would have to be suitable access. So would you refuse them work because these facilities would have to be made available and part of the cost would have to be met by the company.

I am sure there are schemes where the company in question could claim a grant to employ temporary replacement staff and disabled facilities put in place. If an employee contracted cancer would you terminate their contract because they may have to take time off for treatment?