Posted on 01/04/2006 5:41:46 AM PST by Kurt_Hectic
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.
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Companies started by Muslims will make sure this law is stomped flat.
Well, what percentage of their population is children? Should be that percentage of kids on the boards, too. And retirees. And criminals. And...
Quotas in hiring are always unwise.
I suppose that if a company was 70% women the quota nazi's wouldn't have a problem with that.
There probably would be no problem if they all looked like Mette-Marit.
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