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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWe can be bought with flat screen TVs and cheap booze. Its the new gladiators. And who does not like a gladiator?
10% of people are just screwed.
Obviously the statistics are all lies, damn lies and statistics just like government policy on Brexit.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostI don't find ties or suits sexy.
However some people involved in deciding uniform policies have warped ideas of what both men and women should dress like.
I am shocked by this verdict. Surely justice is only for the rich?
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Originally posted by chopper View PostWhat was the ratio of successful to unsuccessful cases before and after 2013?
Back in the day, when I employed people, I employed one saleswoman who sold sod all. So I closed my sales department down and made her redundant. And she took me to the employment tribunal with a whole long list of frivolous tulipe in her claim, including sex discrimination. (which she later withdrew). Her 'unfair dismissal' claim was obvious that her meaning of 'unfair' was not the same as the one the ET would use.
Eventually, having spent thousands on unrecoverable legal fees, she realised she didn't have a case and agreed to settle for £500 which worked out cheaper than my day in court (which would have been successful) and so we settled rather than go for the pyrrhic victory. She got £500 she didn't deserve, I got to stop worrying about it.
(As she'd had no formal advice on this, she forgot to request a good reference as part of the settlement. Which meant I could be truthful when I got a subsequent reference request).
She would have more likely thought twice if she'd had to pay for the ET1 submission rather than being able to make a cost free vindictive submission.
The reason fees were introduced was because businesses lobbied for it. If it means that one person benefits from having their voice heard then they are a good thing.
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Originally posted by administrator View PostNeeded to be done in light of the statistics, good result.
Pimlico Plumbers, which has donated more than £48,000 to the Conservative party in the last two years, lost a separate case earlier this year against a plumber who challenged the company’s view that he was self-employed at an employment tribunal.
Mullins told the radio programme that the scrapping of fees for employment tribunals was a “ridiculous, stupid, dangerous and irrational decision” and would lead to “malicious” claims from employees.
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Originally posted by chopper View PostWhat was the ratio of successful to unsuccessful cases before and after 2013?
Back in the day, when I employed people, I employed one saleswoman who sold sod all. So I closed my sales department down and made her redundant. And she took me to the employment tribunal with a whole long list of frivolous tulipe in her claim, including sex discrimination. (which she later withdrew). Her 'unfair dismissal' claim was obvious that her meaning of 'unfair' was not the same as the one the ET would use.
Eventually, having spent thousands on unrecoverable legal fees, she realised she didn't have a case and agreed to settle for £500 which worked out cheaper than my day in court (which would have been successful) and so we settled rather than go for the pyrrhic victory. She got £500 she didn't deserve, I got to stop worrying about it.
(As she'd had no formal advice on this, she forgot to request a good reference as part of the settlement. Which meant I could be truthful when I got a subsequent reference request).
She would have more likely thought twice if she'd had to pay for the ET1 submission rather than being able to make a cost free vindictive submission.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostIt was a nasty idea and saved sod all. It has however caused a 70% drop in cases.
Back in the day, when I employed people, I employed one saleswoman who sold sod all. So I closed my sales department down and made her redundant. And she took me to the employment tribunal with a whole long list of frivolous tulipe in her claim, including sex discrimination. (which she later withdrew). Her 'unfair dismissal' claim was obvious that her meaning of 'unfair' was not the same as the one the ET would use.
Eventually, having spent thousands on unrecoverable legal fees, she realised she didn't have a case and agreed to settle for £500 which worked out cheaper than my day in court (which would have been successful) and so we settled rather than go for the pyrrhic victory. She got £500 she didn't deserve, I got to stop worrying about it.
(As she'd had no formal advice on this, she forgot to request a good reference as part of the settlement. Which meant I could be truthful when I got a subsequent reference request).
She would have more likely thought twice if she'd had to pay for the ET1 submission rather than being able to make a cost free vindictive submission.
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostI don't find ties or suits sexy.
However some people involved in deciding uniform policies have warped ideas of what both men and women should dress like.
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