This is the first time I've ever heard of a "Company Bicycle" . . .
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm...name_page.html
22 January 2007
HE'S A LUMBERJACK & HE'S OK BEING GAY
Forestry bosses want more minority workers
By Dean Herbert
FORESTRY bosses are echoing the famous Monty Python sketch about a cross-dressing lumberjack.
They are advertising for a diversity tsar -to recruit gay and transsexual lumberjacks.
The Forestry Commission in Scotland are setting up the £30,000-a year post to increase diversity and encourage minority groups into the traditionally masculine work.
But the Catholic Church have attacked the move as "social engineering".
A spokeswoman for the commission said: "We want to make the workforce as diverse as possible, to develop a diversity strategy for the whole of the organisation.
"It may be that people have resisted change over the years and the job of the diversity manager will be to spread the message that diversity will bring benefits to all levels of the organisation.
"That means reaching out to minority communities, including gay people, who might be put off by the traditional stereotypes, and ethnic minorities."
The job advertisement states that the commission want a "driven, dynamic individual" with a university degree.
The successful candidate will be expected to launch a training programme to ensure equal opportunities and will be granted a final salary pension and 25 days holiday per year.
The diversity manager will also get a company bicycle, mobile phone, childcare vouchers, subsidised healthcare and discounts in a range of shops, restaurants and tourist attractions.
Calum Irving, of gay rights group Stonewall Scotland, welcomed the new job.
He said: "A good diversity manager can help an organisation appeal to widen the pool of talent, which is essential to a competitive job market such as Scotland."
Stonewall's recent publication of the top 100 places to work for gay and lesbian staff recently praised Lothian and Borders police and Halifax Bank of Scotland for having commendable diversity rules.
However, Scottish Catholics hit out at the scheme, with a spokesman accusing the commission of "indoctrination".
He said: "This is nothing more than state sponsored indoctrination.
"The ideologues behind diversity schemes like this should realise true diversity is realising not everyone agrees with gay relationships."
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