TUC warns on tribunal rule changes

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Changing the employment tribunal system could give a green light to rogue bosses to break the law, union leaders have warned.

The TUC said it is concerned that calls from business groups for an increase in the qualifying period in which workers can claim unfair dismissal, from one to two years, would allow firms to sack staff on a "whim".

The Government is expected to launch a consultation on the future of employment tribunals in the wake of complaints from business groups about a 56% increase in cases last year.

A fee or deposit, returnable if the claimant wins the case, is expected to be among the main options, with proposals likely to range from £30 to £500 per case in a bid to discourage spurious claims. The TUC said that making people pay a fee of up to £500 before they can go to a tribunal would deter many employees with genuine cases, especially low-paid workers who have just lost their jobs.

General Secretary Brendan Barber said: "At the heart of any change to the tribunal system has to be the desire to make it more effective at delivering justice to the thousands of people who every year are wronged at work.

"While employer groups complain that tribunals are costing them too much, they seem to have lost sight of the fact that if firms treated their staff as they are meant to, few would ever find themselves taken to court.

"Instead of a focus on the employment tribunal process, ministers' time would be better spent looking at why so many companies, especially small employers, have such poor employment practices.

"When things go wrong at work, it's better for everyone concerned that the problem is resolved within the workplace, which is why mediation and the assistance provided by unions and Acas is so invaluable.

"The Government should stand firm in the face of the intense employer lobbying seen in recent weeks and leave employment tribunals to continue holding rogue employers to account and delivering justice for all workers who have been discriminated against or treated unfairly."

The British Chambers of Commerce said employment tribunals were in "dire need" of reform, claiming they were too slow and weighted in favour of workers.

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Tories/Lib Dem coalition want the uneducated to stay uneducated so they can exploit to the max.

[norbert]

Re Torygraph article - Marks and Sparks don't recognise unions ....they have a " open door policy " ....er yeah right .....Leighton had the same with ASDA ....very anti GMB , Balfour Beattie are a typical True Blue Tory to the bone , anti union firm .....these big building firms like to sack a few people every week to keep people on their toes and use Blacklists .....it's no coincidence that RM's engineers went on strike as these firms try derecognition in all but name if RM are the " sleeping partners " .

The Tories under Major got a opt out of the Social Chapter ...saying things like the EU Working Time Directive would put people on the dole . New Labour went in for it ...but it was the most watered down version possible due to CBI lobbying pressure & wishing to be business friendly ....they would argue that it neutralised the Tories who incidentally were tearing themselves apart over Europe and they would say it would push the Tories further to the right as the centre was too crowded ...which they have gone ...now they pretend to be centralist due to very slick marketing and incessent propaganda ...but it was a damn sight better than nothing

The Camer-con Tories have always wanted EU Directives & H&S " watered down " ....ironically his cabinet are comprised of failed former leaders & ministers like IDS , Dracula & The Fighting Feotus that were too right wing to be electable . Call me Dave is under a lot of pressure from his right wing EEC sceptic rump and these Captains of Industry that think Employment Law is too weighted towards the employee ....it isn't ...in actuality ....it's very weak & toothless with many paper tigers

. The Tories don't mind EU Directives as long as they're free market ones or the ERM under Major ...Monetarism a la Thatcher through the back door .

As for Tribunals ...Labour got it back to 1 year ....then the right wing of New Labour like Blair and Nurse Ratched came under pressure for too many Industrial Tribunals , Johnson tried to make out he'd got a concession , the fair and reasonable employer test was dropped , firms like RM could fit people up providing they'd followed their own due procedure ....e.g. Burslem BUT ACAS would step into the brink and work their " magic " . In short it's " we're c**ts but that Toffee nosed lot are absolute t**ts "

That idea that they are proposing is a Keith Joseph 80's idea ....Joseph was regarded as a hair shirt by his own ...it's a nice way of saying Nutter ....it works to a point .....but it can be " How long have you worked here ? A . 25 yrs " I don't like the tone of your voice , f**k off and get your cards " ....then the worker is replaced by the bosses son . You are also likely to end up in some unit on a Ind Estate in the middle of nowhere with H&S out of the window .

The other thing they're trying to bring back is the 90's " Age Of Deference " .....Be I ever so humble Sir ....You're a Toff make no mistake " ....My experience was you ended up with Concentration Camp Mentality and Management ....That Bastion of Socialism ....The CBI ..... criticised it for being inefficent .....as eventually the chickens come home to roost .

Basically it is " Do you want to tolerate necessary evils ? or shall we go all high and mighty and fall on our inherent contradictions eventually ?

http://cameron-cloggysmoralcompass.blog" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... nt-is.html Read this further erosion of our civil rights from this disgusting pea-brained stinking lousy Tory government. Firms get powers to sack the slackers






Companies are to be given greater freedom to sack under-performing workers as part of an overhaul of employment laws to boost the economic recovery.

So can someone explain how being given the power to sack someone is going to help boost growth? How is making someone so scared about losing their job that they will put up with the most appalling abuse, bullying, and unfair demands from employers, help grow more jobs?

Is this really what we want for our children and is this really what a civilised society does, go BACKWARDS? First of all Cameron is reducing union powers, then he makes it impossible for people that have been sacked unfairly to get legal aid and now this?

What is it all for? So the Government does NOT have to pay public sector workers who have worked for under two years redundancy or severance pay?

Is this what all you workers who voted Tory at the last election, actually voted for? This and to see our NHS privatised under your noses?

Look at what Cameron is doing, he is working to a plan

First shrink the state
Erode union laws about striking and remove as many workers rights as possible
Cut work related benefits, so when workers lose their jobs their unemployment payments are minimum
Make over 500.000 public sector workers redundant
Make it easier for them to be sacked in first two years
Wriggle out of paying them their proper redundancy packages and severance pay
Make people terrified of losing their jobs
Make it easier for employers to bully and intimidate their workforce
Give employers the right to force people to do the jobs of two or more people
Make it impossible for rushed stressed employees *not* to make mistakes
Make it easier for employers to use those mistakes and threaten the sack to employees
Employees will not complain because they will be terrified of losing their jobs and not being able to find a new one
Make it ways for employers NOT to pay their staff a proper living wage
Make it impossible for people sacked unfairly to go to tribunal By
Removing legal aid for workers taking employers to industrial tribunals
Kept Employers National Insurance Contributions the same
But raised the national insurance contributions for workers
Do you not see? Cameron, Osborne and Clegg are making it so easy for employers to treat their workforce like scum.

The only jobs available in this country will be burger pushers and shelf stackers at Tescos, hundreds of thousands of people will be trapped in dead end jobs.

The very next thing will be that the Tories and Cameron, Osborne and Clegg will be removing the minimum wage, they will tell you that the country can no longer afford it.