Disability issues added to new law on discrimination
Monday 25th July 2011, 3:18PM BST.
The proposition was amended to include matters regarding the elderly
JERSEY will get a discrimination law after a landmark decision in the States.
In what was the final piece of business for the House on Friday before the summer recess, 42 Members unanimously gave the go-ahead for a draft law to protect Island workers from discrimination, to be drawn up whatever the cost.
The new law would outlaw discrimination over issues of disability, age, sex and race.
The proposition had been brought by Deputy Geoff Southern, a long-term advocate of the Island’s need for a discrimination law, and was successfully amended by the Council of Ministers.
The decision now means that a draft version of the law is expected to be brought back to the States some time next year. If adopted, it will be implemented soon afterwards.
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I do hope we’ll still be able to discriminate against non Jersey born people and make them wait 11 years for their quallies.
It’s all well and good having anti race/sex/ethnic discrimination but we must preserve our preferential status.
My sister has had enough of Jersey and has gone to live in the UK, bought a house straight away, no qualifying period there. Pleased that door doesn’t swing both ways, the last thing we want is English people having the same rights here that we have over there.
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‘to protect Island workers from discrimination, to be drawn up whatever the cost.’
Do you mean ‘whatever the cost of the draft law’ or ‘whatever the cost of the protection from discrimination.’
If the latter, this is a very dangerous path to go down, as it will enshrine in law ridiculous adaptations to old Jersey properties, ‘whatever the cost’
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This is good news for the jersey born people, who have had years of discrimination in the workplace.
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This is excellent news. Jersey aspires to being world class as a business centre and this is an important building block in that regard.
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James, I am sure the anti discrimination law will take into account everything that our government want to discriminate against. The new law will be cherry picked so as not to cause a problem for our glorious leaders! Bit like government reform is cherry picked, it will be another case of do as we say and not as we do.
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2// James and perhaps old Jersey properties should be protected from the disabled!. Still wearing your uniform from 1943 James?
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#2 It didn’t happen in the UK so I doubt it will happen here, there are laws protecting certain properties after all. Also, before ruling that an employer has been discriminatory the person making the call would have to take into account the size of the company, how feasible it would really be for them to alter their environment to meet the needs of a potential employee, etc. It’s not a black and white issue, the resources available to the company in question are taken into account.
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Good news
A local businessman pays 20% income tax.
A 11k immigrant pays 1%.
This is discrimination against local residents.
Looks like its 20% for 11k’s then like the rest of us
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There are people from every nation on earth working in Jersey.I am discriminated against by having the dreaded Jersey passport whereby the only place i can legally work in the entire world is Jersey and the UK.How can that be legal when even the front of my passport has ‘European Union’on it and in the back page that i am not entitled to work or receive benefits in the EU.!!!
There are thousands of people with this in their passport.Do i think anything will change?Nope.
Not unless its from pressure from the EU itself.
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Only went through quickly so they could go on leave.Wait till they try to implement it.! It will be snail pace.
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“Whatever the cost” until the person heading it up falls out of flavour with the states, and we’ll suddenly see a smear campaign on ‘celebrity style living’ and unchecked spending….
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I wonder if we will see wheelchair ramps in gronez castle. Or perhaps one to go up the pinnacle.
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They will not introduce a Freedom of Information Law even if it was no cost whatsoever, they will avoid that at any cost.
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John 9 –
There are people from every nation on earth working in Jersey.I am discriminated against by having the dreaded Jersey passport whereby the only place i can legally work in the entire world is Jersey and the UK.How can that be legal when even the front of my passport has ‘European Union’on it and in the back page that i am not entitled to work or receive benefits in the EU.!!!
There are thousands of people with this in their passport.Do i think anything will change?Nope.
Not unless its from pressure from the EU itself.
Ah that old chestnut, your government chooses not to join the EU and benefits enormously from not doing so, there would be no offhsore tax dodging centre ( sorry finance ) if you joined the EU. That means that the prosperity the island has enjoyed for nearly 50 years would have been absent, with tourism all but dead you’d be a bunch of farmers living on bean crock talking about the good old days.
Can’t have it both ways, btw you can work in Europe, not sure why you’d want to Jersey is one of the best places in the world to live, that’s why us immigrants sufffer the indignity of the quals system. You conversely suffer no such discrimination, Jersey born moaning about discrimination – cat/kettle/black/ methinks.
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English Bob
Indeed you are dicriminated against with our bizarre quallies system.But i am still discriminated against also by not having a level playing field when it comes to employment.You can work in the EU,i can’t.And i completely agree with you about our government not joining the EU for tax reasons.So why does the front of my passport have European Union on it and in the back says i have no rights in the European Union.You may think we are a bunch of moaners,but in a lot of cases we have aright to be.There is far more going on in this island than you’d care to know about.
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#14 Who says he can work in Europe? I know my boyfriend can’t, not in the way that anyone from the UK (or non-stamped people from Jersey) can.
And, as I’ve said before, Jersey was perfectly entitled not to join the EU. And having NOT joined they shouldn’t have to abide by ANY of its regulations (taking in EU workers etc.) BUT the UK screwed them big style and so they have to take the cr*p without any of the benefit.
I repeat… Jersey DIDN’T join the EU so explain why it’s right that they find themselves having to accept people from all over the EU? They shouldn’t have to abide by any EU regulations.
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Leah
They don’t abide by EU rules.As with everything they just cherry pick what they want.They wanted lots of cheap labour because they pay tax (ITIS).Because of 0/10 the tax burden has been taken off companies and placed on the worker.Solution-get more workers in.Same as there latest tactic- get more rich people in.This government is really clutching at straws,pathetic attempts at trying to create an economy without any thought given to the quality of life of people already living here.They are not really creating any business,just letting more and more people in to pay tax.
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But English bob chooses to come here. If it is so bad—-why stay!? Because its suits you and then you have the cheek to moan about it! When in Rome…..
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Oh my god there is already the Human Rights (Jersey) Law 2000 – why is Deputy Southern making two laws to do the same thing – my god he is desperate!
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