On Friday 16 Mar 2012, Andrew Lynn wrote: > [snip] > (b) Work with local community of employee and employer, so as to > ensure fundamental security for the employees. This is where labour > rights come in. No need for policing.
Fully agreed with all the points you have made. However, you are missing one important difference between the original issue and your proposed solution: communities choosing to enhance their own security are doing precisely that: choosing. There had not been any fiat from on top forcing them them enhance their security. As a member of a community I can opt to mobilise my neighbours to set up neighbourhood watch schemes. As a resident, I can choose to live in an area that has such schemes active. Or not, as the case may be. The success or otherwise of the government in protecting me is for me to decide, and the amount of time, effort and money I'm willing to put into extra protection is also purely up to me. Similarly, whether organisations choose to provide extra security and/or transport for their employees (whether male or female) ought to be a matter for the organisation to decide. Workers would then have a choice as to whether or not they wish to join such organisations. If the need for extra security is great enough, organisations that do not provide such facilities will automatically find themselves short of appropriately skilled workers, and either change their policies or change their line of business. However, what we are talking about here is a government directive forcing extra security for a certain segment of society. This sends out three messages that a government must not be guilty of under any circumstances: - A condescending and paternalistic (I know what's good for you) attitude. - An admission of failure in fulfilling its primary objective (security for citizens). - Reservations translating into restrictions for s specific segment of society (You must provide transport, ergo if you can't provide transport you must not hire women to do certain jobs). The key out here is a voluntary social consciousness as opposed to a diktat mandating a sham of social consciousness. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
