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I agree entirely with the essential point of the post - and indeed that is ther reason I sold out of my last physical business 18 months ago....

Let me be non PC and say that one of the defining moments of my transition out of real business, was when an employee joined me already pregnant then wanted maternity leave a few months later....never to return: clearly in that instance, taking employment just to GET maternity leave and pay -. It leaves small employers in an impossible position.

And The difficulties now embodied in age discrimnation making sensible questions difficult on experience are proof that the government lives in cloud cuckoo land!!

However, I also think

The stuff on safety is in essence no bad thing. forcing employers to consider....
-do employees need training with manual lifting?
-is their posture ok when sitting at a computer?
-is sole working safe, and what safeguards are needed?
-what precautions are needed with chemicals and cleaning?
And forcing the employers to think it out for their own situation
etc etc
Right thinking employers did most of this anyway, but forcing all to do it
was no bad thing


Let me say also...the ideas of that were sown in 1974, and the six pack introduced a few years later, so nothing to do with the present inhabitants of downing street.