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    I piani di riforma ‘minacciano il congedo di maternità e la sicurezza del lavoro per 500.000 donne incinte’


    I piani di riforma ‘minacciano il congedo di maternità e la sicurezza del lavoro per 500.000 donne incinte’

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-uk-nigel-farage-equality-act-pregnant-women-maternity-b2967253.html

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    1. Prestigious_Bat_9403 on

      Anything to get people to stop talking about those donations…

    2. trmetroidmaniac on

      >Reform has said it would introduce a new “Workplace Fairness Act”, saying it would “restore fairness, protect women, and rebuild public trust in the law by treating people as individuals rather than separating them into competing groups”. But they have not provided details on what protections this legislation would include.
      Ms Braverman described protected characteristics as being “pernicious” and “divisive”.
      Pregnancy rights charity Pregnant then Screwed warned that scrapping the legislation “would have catastrophic effects for everyone”, calling for “more support for mothers and parents”, not less.

      >Earlier this year, *The Independent* revealed that [Reform UK](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/reform-uk)’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton [by-election](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/by-election), Matt Goodwin, previously called for women and young girls to be given a “biological reality” check, as he gave his views on how Britain should tackle its impending “fertility crisis”. 
      He had previously suggested that people who don’t have children [should be taxed extra as punishment](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-matt-goodwin-children-tax-gorton-denton-b2914817.html).
      Meanwhile, Nigel Farage has said those who have “quite a few children” could be given tax breaks to help with the cost of living if his party came to power.
      The party’s head of policy, Dr James Orr, has also advocated for pro-natalist public policy, saying that the “gap between desired fertility and actual fertility was getting wider and wider in most parts of the West”.
      But Ms Mansell warned that weakening equality protections would mean “more women may feel forced to delay starting a family or decide they do not want to take that risk at all”.

      This illustrates the incoherence of Reform’s platform. From the point of view of libertarian capitalism, there’s no reason that motherhood should be encouraged and protected; from the point of view of social conservatism, it’s essential. Marrying the two has always been a dodgy idea.

    3. TheOnlyGaming3 on

      Insanity from the party that wants to ban working from home and reduce women’s workplace rights by repealing the Equality Act

    5. Deepmidwinter2025 on

      Hand maids tale. Will be reduced access to birth control next and pseudo science about vaccinations.

    6. Iamthe0c3an2 on

      So reform wants people to have more kids. But turn around to do this?

    8. Hellstorm901 on

      If the US is anything to go by the whole “Making it harder for women to have jobs and families” is part of the plan

    9. Mean-Solution2150 on

      Do you get a tax break if you’re infertile though? Or shall all women turn into handmaid’s right now?

    10. birdinthebush74 on

      But Reform says they are ‘ pronatalist’ I assume that means getting mothers out of the workforce, just like Farage’s US anti abortion mates .

    11. rwinh on

      It’s ironic really, Farage and Reform are so anti-women, workers and hand-outs, yet Farage is probably one of the most kept men going in British politics.

      He was a kept man of Aaron Banks (a description given by Channel 4 News), and is a kept man of Christopher Harborne.

      I bet a lot of Reform voters hate scroungers, but they worship and support one of the biggest grifters/scroungers going.

      Reform voters and supporters are some of the most moronic people going, really. Sheep voting for a wolf who’s dressed in wolf clothing, claiming he understands the plight of the sheep, to incredibly stupid sheep. The sorts of people who need to be constantly reminded not to click suspicious links in emails or give their bank details to the person on the other end of the phone.

    13. Both-Mud-4362 on

      If you are:
      – a women (50.7% of the UK).
      – are mixed race/black etc (18%)
      – disabled (25%)
      – unemployed due to child care needs (25% of mothers)
      – unemployed/part time due to being a carer etc (2.6million people in the UK)

      Reform will roll back your rights, your government support and the result will be increased deaths in these demographics.

    14. Aggravating-Sort9474 on

      They are adopting MAGA’s ‘Own the libs’ strategy, their base doesn’t care if policy harms them as long as they get to see someone they disagree with visibly upset.

    16. Important_Ruin on

      And people want these clowns to run the country.

      Jesus wept.

      No workers rights, no women’s right, no equality rights, no human right, no renters rights.

    17. mittfh on

      The entire point of Protected Characteristics is to differentiate between discrimination against you as an individual and you because of your demographics, but “demographics” is a fairly woolly term, so the law has to ennumerate exactly what’s covered.

      In the absence of the Equality Act or equivalent legislation, what would stop an Employer deciding they don’t want to hire any women under 40, anybody with a disability that requires any adaptions whatsoever, anybody over the age of 60, anybody who subscribes to the “wrong” religion etc?

    18. WildWinterberry on

      The “protect our women and children” brigade at it again

    20. CrashTestOrphan on

      Reform policy is straight up “we hate and despise all women and will make their life worse guaranteed” but let’s talk more about the Greens for some reason.

    22. dewittless on

      Do not take for granted what the equalities act has given us. Reform will happily revoke it without a plan and blame the chaos on the people. Don’t give them that chance.

    23. coffeewalnut08 on

      Not surprising, they were never a party invested in securing the best interests of women.

    24. off_of_is_incorrect on

      Yes, we (with brains) know this.

      Unison put out a 30 page pdf on what Reform will do and how it will impact working, ordinary people.

      Unfortunately, ‘we want change, immigrants out’ is a surprisingly winning strategy for the English (and the Welsh it seems).

    25. WheresMyFlamingo on

      What negative impact does a pregnant woman pose you that you want to scrap the equality act?

    26. ComprehensiveFee8404 on

      Upvoting to increase the reach of this post, not because I agree with the policy!

    27. HormuzVengeance on

      This is what my biggest argument has been against reform.

      Generally speaking, I support a lot of ideologies aligned with the left, however I am also wanting much stricter immigration laws, as well as generally being against normalisation of islam becoming part of general societal life and influence which has absolutely been happening, and I hazard a lot of reform voters feel the same way.

      But reform getting in – even ignoring all of their idiotic policies and corruption – would be devastating to women’s rights and women’s safety given Nigel and his cronies’ track record on parliament voting regarding those issues.

    28. GeminiCheese on

      These people just need to get in the bin. We fought too long and hard to have the worker protections and social safety nets these greedy bastards want to strip away.

      Anyone who even remotely supports these people is a complete and utter tool.

    29. PsychologySpecific16 on

      >reads article

      >ah so reform don’t even know what they are going to do, let alone the Indy

      What a waste of time

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