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Lawyers slam government plans to restrict unfair dismissal claims

I suspect the whingeing is more a result of lots of lucrative unfair dismissal defence work evaporating. Mangwana says: "Worse still, this proposal would allow employers to sack staff who are performing productively and effectively with impunity.” What the hell would they want to sack them for if they were performing productively and effectively? Employment law has become a legalistic nightmare - just try reading some of the Court of Appeal judgments, usually public sector cases funded by unions, to see how absurdly compicated the law is, and how incapable of comprehension by a lay employer. These lawyers who are quoted seem to think that an employee should have a right to a job. They don't. They are employed for a purpose, and if that purpose disappears or they are no longer performing it properly it should be possible to fire them with the minimum formality. Sadly, we are now having to live in the real world, where we are having to compete with countries like India and China, where employment law is an oxymoron. We no longer have captive markets, and subidising superfluous employees indefinitely is no longer an option.

26-Oct-2011

7:17 pm