Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-05-24-Speech-4-028-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-05-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120524.5.4-028-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-24-Speech-4-029-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:David Campbell Bannerman2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I am very much in favour of equal work for equal value and of fair treatment, but the issue here is: who enforces that? We do not need the EU to dictate to sovereign nations yet more top-down equalities legislation in yet another power grab. Pay should not be set at the EU level. With the state of the European economies at present, this enforcement really does not help – it is like tying weights to someone who is already drowning. Already the engine of our economies – small businesses – are suffering from too many unnecessary, costly and over-the-top regulations, such as the disgraceful, out-of-control UK employment tribunal system, where 90% of those laws come from the EU and which really acts as licensed blackmail. Thankfully, the UK Government is cutting that back. But business really does not need this – not when one in five young people in the EU are out of work and when the EU share of GDP wealth is falling so alarmingly. We have to ensure that all intervention is constructive; this is not. Then there is the EU’s Equality Directive, which was dressed up as Harriet Harman’s Equality Act. Civitas actually estimated that that directive alone cost GBP 150 million in the service sector and 210 million across SMEs, across the UK. It is too much."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2012-03-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2012-02-02--2014-06-30)3 member; PECH (2011-05-24--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFCO (2012-01-31--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2011-07-11--2014-06-30)3 member; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; INTA (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "David Campbell Bannerman (ECR )."1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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