Our employment law rights are disappearing at breakneck speed. And nobody is able to explain why:- the Government has not bothered to do any research on whether these changes are needed, and ignores the objections they are getting from all sides.
It will soon cost over £1,000 to bring an unfair dismissal claim - and you will not get that money back even if you win. Compensation will be slashed. And the latest proposal is that employers will be able to compel new staff to "sell" some of their most important rights, including the right to claim unfair dismissal, for £2,000 worth of shares, which will in practice most likely be worthless in the hands of the employees.
Discrimination rights remain for the moment, because they come from European Union law. But how long will they last once the Tories take this country out of Europe? The powers and independence of the Equality and Human Rights Commission have already been degraded under this Government, and this has received international attention.
I recently attended a conference at a large law firm, attended by two or three hundred of their business clients. It included a forum of experts representing both employers and employees, and a well known employment lawyer. All without exception spoke out strongly against the reforms.
The audience of business people was asked to vote on the reforms. Not one single person voted in favour.
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Employment law rights go down the drain
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Dromedary · 18/11/2012 21:31
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