Thursday, May 17, 2007

Equal Employment

A KLKallout from Shaheen via e-mail:

Dear all,

All of you have always complained of inequality, injustice, racism, lack of democracy, lack of freedom of speech and expression. Well, here is a golden opportunity to shout and scream out loud and demand the fairness you as positive, constructive, moral, law-abiding and righteous citizens deserve. They have allocated 30 mins on national radio (read below). Its a scratch. To just merely make this scratch however, a lot of effort, struggle, sacrifice and pain has been confronted on the parts of those who have earned this much discussion on a sensitive issue indeed to say the least in our great Republic.

Now I dare each of you to make your voices heard. If you don't make your voices heard now, this issue will die down for another 42 years, perhaps so that your children and their children will suffer a fate likely worse than you have suffered in terms of discrimination, inequality and denial of equity: Voices on radio . A new set of guidelines on fair employment practices was announced earlier this month, but critics have called for these suggestions to be made mandatory, rather than leave it up to employers to enforce. In the past week, readers have chimed in that legislation has been implemented in other areas to great effect, namely against littering and chewing gum, so why not one on fair employment?

Tune in to 938LIVE's Talkback from 8.15am to 8.45am tomorrow for a debate on the issue highlighted in Today. Call 6691 1938 to share your views

Call them up and let them know we want legislation, we want a law against unfair employment practices. May God be with us.

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