In recent developments by Kate Ellis, who have announced an idea that business with more than 100 employee will be mandated to report on the number of women being hired and their positions in order to achieve gender equality in the workplace.
This mandate is going to cost $11.2 million to established the Workplace Gender Equality Agency to gather data from firms with more than 100 employee as it is intended help decide which firms to be awarded for contracts from the Government unless that firm meet that quota.
As far as I think this mandate by the Minister for the status of women have created another unnecessary compliance for firms that wanted to expand beyond more than 100 people. Not any its a waste of time and tax payers money to perform all of these audits on the firms that hire more than 100 people.
Whatever the percentages of the Australian workforce pool that hires more than 100 people may be, all as I know that small to medium enterprises employees makes up somewhere of 80% of the entire Australian workforce. I do seriously think that department is going to serious sick to their budget of $11.2 million?
The Answer is: there’s going to be over-budget anyway by many folds and its more taxes on the way from the Labor government continues to deepens its fiscal deficits. I’m not sure if that’s suppose to be a distraction or a stunt just to improve the opinion polls as the Labor party is slipping away downwards since the announcement of the carbon tax.
I think that idea is going to put both more men and women out of work. No business owner is willing to hire more than a 100 employees because of that proposal and I hope that dosen’t passes both the house and the senate. First of all, I like women of all walks of life. I have more sisters than any average family and those who worked with me and supported with me are women.
The world is changing everyday, including Australia where the opportunities of personal liberties have never been so good then a half a century ago. Where women are already have a choice to live a free and independent life than ever before. They can have it all as far as her vision reaches beyond the skies.
It’s freedom that counts to be more progressive for the sake of society than government mandate. I hate to see Ms Ellis portfolio to achieve the opposite like she have originally hopes to achieve.
That mandate is really going to make chances of getting a job a hell lot harder. Kate Ellis, this idea of yours is going way too far, I know it has good intentions but it also have numerous unintended consequences. Such untended consequences for me will be, that I won’t able to support my sisters or a partner I haven’t yet meet who may needs my support.
Cheers
Khoa
