Wokingham Council in Berkshire has banned employees from utilizing the time period "hard-working households" in its new inclusive language information.
The council fears the phrase might offend jobless individuals and make them really feel "undeserving".
The steerage explicitly states: "Speaking about 'hard-working households' implies those that are usually not working are undeserving."
The controversial transfer has led to the authority being branded "Woke Borough Council" by critics.
The language restrictions are a part of a broader effort to make council communications extra inclusive.
The information additionally prohibits phrases like "blacklist" and "whitewash" as they could possibly be thought of "racist".
Workers have been warned that "sustained eye contact could possibly be thought of aggressive" in some cultures.
Free Speech Union chief Toby Younger criticised the council's determination.
"In fact, it will be Wokingham borough council that got here up with this," he instructed The Solar.
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"I count on the following step will probably be to delete the final two syllables of their title so it turns into Woke Borough Council."
He added: "Extra inclusive that means as a result of the onerous of understanding will get what the council's all about."
It’s not the primary occasion of public our bodies proscribing language use.
Final 12 months, Sunderland Metropolis Council banned the phrase "working class" as a result of it was thought of too British.
Simply days in the past, Cardiff College instructed college students to not use colloquial phrases resembling "kill two birds with one stone" or "a chunk of cake" for related causes.
The college's steerage was issued in a compulsory EDI (Equality, Range and Inclusion) consciousness module for first-year college students.
College students had been additionally instructed it’s a "micro aggression" to make feedback resembling "everybody can succeed when you simply work onerous sufficient".
Free speech campaigners criticised the college for trying to "police" on a regular basis language.