You will have seen various reports about the government’s Employment Rights Bill, which is due to make things significantly more complicated, time consuming and costly for employers who wish to part company with problem employees later this year. Fortunately, some of the initial proposals in the Bill have been watered down a little as theContinue reading “Do you have a difficult employee who started in the last year? Act WELL BEFORE October”
Category Archives: Unfair Dismissal
Why is it more costly to call a colleague a Scottish ***** than a scouse ****?
Strange but true! This is because nationality is covered under the definition of race discrimination and harassment whereas region of the UK is not. Please don’t take this as an open invitation to abuse scousers, geordies or anyone else though as even though this would not be racial harassment it is highly likely to beContinue reading “Why is it more costly to call a colleague a Scottish ***** than a scouse ****?”
Unfair dismissal rights from day one, increased union powers, and banning ‘fire and rehire’. The government is not hanging around on employment law!
Earlier this week we described how the government is set to announce their bill on increased employee rights later this month, with changes they describe as “the biggest reforms to workers’ rights in a generation”. This is a flagship Labour policy that is being spearheaded by the deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. In addition toContinue reading “Unfair dismissal rights from day one, increased union powers, and banning ‘fire and rehire’. The government is not hanging around on employment law!”
An employee dismissed for going to the pub while off sick wins his unfair dismissal claim – have we gone too soft?
I was brought up in a way that you didn’t take time off school or work unless you’d lost a limb, or had rabies. Even then you were forced to spend the day in bed with no television or anything else that may make a day off more attractive than being in school. Although manyContinue reading “An employee dismissed for going to the pub while off sick wins his unfair dismissal claim – have we gone too soft?”