'Britain’s “terrible” employment laws are undermining economic growth and should be overhauled, according to the confidential report obtained by The Daily Telegraph (See Link.).
It says that British workers should be banned from claiming unfair dismissal so that firms and public sector bodies can find more capable replacements.
Under current regulations, workers are allowed to “coast along” and employers are left fearful of expanding because new staff may prove “unknown quantities” who are impossible to sack, the report says.' Maybe what is suggested here simply goes too far.
Industrial Tribunals are currently handing down absurd decisions.
Maybe everything could be changed with one single adjustment. All claimants should be forced to prove their case. Currently, there is effectively an assumption of guilt against the employer which, as MITK has indicated, now means that employers simply pay off employees as the tribunals are long, costly and horrendously balanced against them. (Been there - done that - got the Tee Shirt.)
With my system, those unfairly sacked would still be able to get no-win-no-fee lawyers to act on their behalf but there would inevitably be a filtering out of the wasters, the liars, the shirkers and the vexatious litigants who are all winning at the moment.
Inevitably, with the shackles off, more employers would be prepared to 'take the risk' of employing extra staff.
I reckon that this measure could easily see unemployment cut by a six figure sum.
(Ne'er forget the sinister dead hand of the ECHR lurking in the background here!)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8849420/Give-firms-freedom-to-sack-unproductive-workers-leaked-Downing-Street-report-advises.html
