King's Speech-worker's rights..

[CurlewKate]

Apparently, the government is proposing legislation that will make protection from unfair dismissal a day one right- not as it currently is and kicking in after 2 years. Huge if true.....

You’re right in that the majority think they have a valid claim - but often they have had no legal advice and don’t realise that in fact they don’t have a claim at all.

It would be better really to bring these claims under normal litigation rules and have fewer litigants in person. Then the claims with minimal prospect of success could be weeded out much earlier. In the current system there is no incentive for the claimant to consider the legal merits of their claim.

I think this will have to happen. It will be carnage otherwise.

I think in the past, having a specific employment tribunal was great because they have expertise but claims are getting more complex, especially with disability discrimination. Plus awards are getting bigger. This shouldn’t be dealt with without legal representation, or with one side having lawyers and the other not, and no costs penalties of refusing to consider the legal merits of the claim.

In the end I think it would probably be cheaper to have a group of government funded lawyers who claimants could get initial advice from, to decide whether they have a good claim. Then if they do, they could instruct normal solicitors to deal with it on a no win no fee basis.

Either that, or like in normal litigation, if you’re claiming over a certain amount, it comes out of ET and goes into normal litigation stream.

Because i don’t think exclusively abuot ME and squarely ME

I also consider what is good for the labour market (and that includes employers) and the economy and entrepreneurship

Agree. I think many employees can see nuance and understand economics as a whole!

That benefits the employee too I agree. Ds will graduate at some point and he may well need employers who are not too risk averse under a new law to give young people their first chance.