Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-25-2009

[andrewducker]

• Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number
  Video footage FTW!
  (tags: police politics UK video TransparentSociety)
• Male workers win equal pay claims
  (tags: equality feminism pay UK)
• Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland
  A first look through the looking glass at Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter
  (tags: movies TimBurton JohnnyDepp Helena_Bonham_Carter)
• Medicine and the Unfree Market
  An important point here is that changing only the payment method, eg single payer versus multiple payers without changing the incentive structure for doctors will not solve our problems.
  (tags: medicine business usa)

Comments

[andrewducker]

Because it costs them an utter fortune. Some of these things are backdated to cost hundreds of millions of pounds.

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Yes, in part because of their crapness in implementing it.

[andrewducker]

Absolu8tely. But it dates back to the point where nobody would have considered comparing different jobs just because men and women tended to do A rather than B.

And councils have massive resistance to change.

Hopefully this kind of thing will get carried through and pay brackets will actually be equalised.