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Employment tribunal reforms will 'impede access to justice'

Peregrine's peregrinations are spot on. There are far too many speculative claims brought solely as a form of extortion, knowing they will cost the employer heavily, win or lose. Most employers take a commercial view and submit to the extortion rather than fight it. There is also no justification for allowing discrimination claims to be made so easily, particularly as the burden of proof is effectively on the employer. There should be a complete exemption for small employers, who should be free to employ whoever they want to, and discriminate to their hearts' content. A sensible employer will not discriminate against someone who's genuinely worth employing. All this nonsense is EU inspired. The overpaid Eurocrats have nothing better to do with their time to dream up yet more ways of strangling the EU economies and encouraging even more employers to move their businesses to less hostile environments.

28-Jan-2011

4:57 pm