Starkey Warns Equality Act Guarantees Company Bankruptcy Through Judicial Wage Setting

What was said

"What the Equality Act does is to introduce this notion that there is a right wage separate from the market wage and that a judge can determine it. The market, if you as an employer pay the market rate for a job, that is not a defense against a judge saying that's wrong. That is guaranteed to bankrupt any company and it's guaranteed, it has already bankrupted Birmingham."

Starkey detailed how the Equality Act allows judges to override market wages, citing Birmingham City Council's bankruptcy from equal pay claims where judges ruled dinner ladies and bin collectors deserved equal pay despite different job demands. He argued this judicial override of market economics is 'insane' and will systematically bankrupt companies and councils across Britain. Starkey claimed this demonstrates how law cannot properly adjudicate between individual rights and fiscal reality.