Gavin Booth
A wreck at thirty
Updated: Mar 16, 2021
If you ever had any doubts about why employment rights and equality are essential, then perhaps the text below will illustrate why they are. We need robust laws to protect workers rights and to prevent them from being exploited.
The most substantial and worthwhile rights have come from the EU, especially in the promotion of equality. Before becoming a member of the EU, in the UK, pregnancy was viewed as an illness and a woman could be dismissed because she was pregnant. EU law now prohibits that.
The text below illustrates how it used to be and why it's important to maintain and improve the rights we have. It was written during Queen Victoria's reign by a mother who had given birth to seven children and who had suffered one miscarriage. Whatever your views about equality rights are, perhaps the text will demonstrate why they are so vitally important.
A wreck at thirty
