NSW bureaucrats are being asked to stop saying “husbands” and “wives” and add “pronoun preference” to their emails as part of training.
Mr Perrottet told 2GB’s Ben Fordham this morning that he would speak to the Treasury secretary today to ensure staff could refer to their spouses however they want, afterThe lessons instructing staff on politically correct language training, including adding “pronoun preference” to their emails, have been roundly criticised a waste of time during the country’s worst economic crisis on record.
Those included avoiding words like “husbands” or “wives” that might cause offence, and to use the neutral phrase “welcome folks” instead of “ladies and gentlemen”.The Daily Telegraph“And not assuming when you’re talking to a colleague that they are heterosexual/cisgendered/endosex, so use ‘partner’ rather than ‘wife’ or ‘husband’ and use an introduction like ‘welcome folks’ rather than ‘hi guys’ or ‘good morning ladies and gentlemen’.
“The notion of needing a safe space is ridiculous. She should do her day job of ‘economic strategy and productivity’ instead of insulting the thousands of business owners who have closed down and the hundreds of thousands of workers who have lost their jobs with her work priority of safe spaces and PC-word training.”public and private sector organisations “will have plans around inclusion” and that “all people should be treated with respect and feel safe in the workplace as a matter of course”.
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