Equality laws working against young women

A new research shows that 24% or directors in Wales avoid hiring women of child-baring age. New laws of maternity leave were highlighted but are having a reverse effect. 43% of directors in the North East and 32.5% in Yorkshire and Humberside admit to not hiring women who fall in to this category. In London and the South East only 18.5% don’t hire women because they are within the child baring age. Some directors have said they avoid women of child baring age because of “the legal risk posed by the constant changes in regulations regarding maternity pay and leave.” The report also reveals that one in five nationally avoids hiring women in this category and they are in fact discriminating against women in the workplace. The laws on maternity leave and pay were supposed to help women but in fact they are hurting women’s opportunity to find jobs. I think this is horrible. Discriminating women just because they are with in child baring age is horrendous. This does not only happen in the UK, sadly this happens in a lot of places. Businesses do not want to pay for maternity leave so they would rather not hire the women even though the women could be highly qualified. I kind of understand why some businesses do this but they should not discriminate against all child baring women. I guess businesses look at it like if an employee gets pregnant the company has to pay more money for leave and possible hiring someone else while the women is out. I still think it is wrong how some companies discriminate, but it’s never going to go away. There is always going to be discrimination in the world.
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