THE EU CALLS IN THE SHRINKS

If the rantings of this blog seem a bit on the head banging side, then that is probably because this blogger, aged 61, should face a psychological test, or so the EU would have it.

In what the Daily Mail refers to as a ‘Reggie Perrin’ test, every worker in the EU over the age of 45 should be tested to identify those at risk of a mid-life crisis. As usual, the EU wanting to sort out these multitudes of crises will be creating a much larger crisis for an enormous number of small to medium sized enterprises who will be affected by what is yet to be another of the EU’s mad meddlings.

It would seem, as the Daily Mail puts it, the aim of this proposal is to “spot troubled employees who are thinking of quitting their jobs because they begin to doubt their own abilities in middle age.”

British businesses are not at all happy with this proposal as the cost and burden implementing this scheme could cripple them, pensioners groups said the idea was insulting to older workers. Once again this is a prime example of how EU proposals could do great harm to the large numbers of smaller business who collectively employ the largest number of workers whilst the large multi-national companies will have the resources to cope with such measures. This is another example of a not very level playing field thanks to the EU.

The proposal states: ‘If older workers are to stay in work, it is vital for firms to introduce an anticipatory mechanism as early as the middle of a workers career, to avoid workers becoming at risk.’

Naturally, as with so many of the EU’s wondrous brainwaves, those who will have to put their hands in their pockets to pay for this will be the firms themselves and the poor old taxpayer whose pockets are getting ever deeper and wallets ever thinner as the EU calls in the shrinks.