Posted on 01/09/2006 5:39:26 PM PST by farlander
Female quota can be halted
Regulations demanding that at least 40 percent of a Norwegian company's board members must be women may be stopped by European authorities.
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) watchdog group ESA (EFTA Surveillance Authority) is now starting a formal investigation of the Norwegian regulations, newspaper Nationen reports.
Norwegian authorities have threatened firms with fines if they do not meet the 40 percent women mark in their corporate boards.
"We have not decided if the law is in order or not but we have asked for more information in order to investigate if the law is in accord with EEA (European Economic Area) legislation," Hallgrimur Asgeirsson, director at ESA's Internal Market Affairs Directorate, told the newspaper.
ESA will check if the Norwegian regulations conflict with the European Union directive forbidding positive discrimination.
"A possible outcome of an interim investigation, at least theoretically, is that the Norwegian law can be stopped. One can imagine that, in theory, the Norwegian rules conflict with EU equality regulations," law professor Hans Petter Graver told Nationen.
Sorry, I thought they said company bedrooms.
Why settle at only 40%? If quotas are allowed and Norway wants to be the perfect "egalitarian" society then everything should be divided 50-50 (or 51-49 or whatever the sex balance might be in the population). Heck, why stop at boardroom slots??? That's small potatoes compared to socialist control of every aspect of economic life.... Everyone should be required to fork over 100% of their earnings to the state for the nanny-state to distribute with perfect "equity" as it sees fit..... don't stop with mere grubby dollars and cents issues, Norway should require that everyone have sex just as often as physically possible, with everyone in sight on some perfectly random "equitable" basis, so that no one ever feels neglected or disadvantaged or slighted by the free choices made by individuals. That may seem like a far-fetched example, but it's not: the Euro-twit-socialists want to abolish free choice (except for women to murder their babies) and use the government to force everyone to live by socialist weenie dictates.
Have the Norwegians yet met a forty percent workforce in garbarge collecting?
In Norway crack is everywhere.
OK, exactly what is "positive" discrimination, I wonder.
P.S. Welcome to America, and congratulations on your citizenship.
Working Title: Take this Directorship and Shove It.
You just gotta know what the average person is saying to themselves....
"Great, I'm busting my behind to get ahead; and the qualifications I'm missing aren't based upon education, experience or accomplishments, but the fact that I don't have a rack."
Actually, this is Norway. They probably don't say much to themselves other than "where's my next welfare check" and "tax the business more".
You just made the minister even more angry.
Norway: Sell short.
Actually Norway should make it the law that the male to female population should be in the ratio of 1 male to every 10 females...... Imagine having so many Scandanavian blondes to yourself!
Quotas, quotas everywhere - what a wonderful way to get less-than quality workers (or college students, etc.).
If folks REALLY are concerned with "fairness" (despite what the liberals of this world might insist on telling us they support), then just hiring folks based on their actual skills and qualifications is what's needed.
If I were the one doing the hiring, I would want the MOST QUALIFIED, BEST PERSON for the job - that's what is in my best interest.
Duh!
Ok, coming from a woman:
1st, as a single mom, if I had a choice to stay home, I would.
2nd, as a bright woman, the only boardroom I would really want to be involved in would be for my own company.
Europe is like the titanic, and European leaders have made it their job to rearrange the deck chairs since 1991.
They need more 15-year-old board members with no background in anything.
Man they are dumber than dog crap over there. Seriously. Nothing against women at all. But dang, dumb.
"You can always tell a Norwegian, but you can't tell him much!"
And I'm saying to myself: Gotta remember to short the stock of as many Norwegian-based companies as I can, the second this law takes effect!
Cheers!
...oh, and buy stock in their competition.
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