Learn from unions on BNP issue

I was dismayed that PM, in its coverage of the British National Party issue (News, 11 Dec 2008), did not refer to the fact that a CIPD member appeared on the BNP membership list. BNP membership goes beyond innocuous political affiliation, especially when the individual is not merely a member but listed as an activist keen to assist.

Membership of the BNP does not fit with the CIPD’s code of conduct for members. The code says members “must promote and themselves seek to exercise employment practices that remove unfair discrimination including but not limited to discrimination against all groups of individuals referred to in anti-discrimination law”.