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National MP Wayne Mapp
is taking his complaint about two airlines banning men from sitting next to
unknown children to the Human Rights Review Tribunal. Mapp raised the issue in
December after Auckland father Mark Worsley complained that he was asked to
move on a Qantas flight when an unaccompanied child was seated next to him.
Worsley's case triggered dozens of complaints to the Human Rights Commission,
including one from Mapp. But now Mapp is pulling
out of the commission's planned mediation with Qantas and Air NZ, which ban
men from sitting next to unaccompanied minors, saying the mediation process
is taking too long. Mapp said in hindsight the complaint should have been
made to the Human Rights Review Tribunal which which has the same powers as a
court and is open to the public. Mapp, told the Sunday
Star-Times he would present the case to the tribunal himself and wanted to
test the law about discrimination. Commission spokeswoman
Carolyn Jurriaans said the mediation process had taken a long time due to the
logistics of dealing with 30 complainants. She said the commission was trying
to establish representative complainants and mediation would continue despite
Mapp's absence. Both airlines have
indicated they will maintain the policy despite the complaints. The treatment of
Worsley was roundly decried as political correctness gone mad |
