Content
Brave New World
Business Not Pleasure
Summertime Blues
All That Glitters...
Casting The Net
Trust Gordon?
It Ain't Over...
One In The Eye
Keep Your Nose Clean
Foreign Affairs
When Is A Car...
Don't Walk Away
Avoiding, The Issue
Brown Is Anti-PC
VAT's Up Doc?
Fuel's Gold
An Age-old Question?
That's Unfair!
Year In Year Out
How Hard To Try?
It's A Rip-Off!
Outlaws Win
Show Some Restraint
Not Our Problem
They Cannot Be Serious?
Merry-Go-Round
Pension Disappointments
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It's well-known that employees get more legal rights after a year's continuous employment. That's when the rules on "unfair dismissal" kick in, and the employer has to jump through many more hoops to sack someone. Some people exploit this by taking people on for just under that period and then getting rid of them. A recent court case showed an employer being stung because of bad counting. The worker was employed on 8 April 2002. The employer took care to issue 7 days' notice (all that was required) to expire on 7 April 2003. Just under a year? Er, no. If you start work on 8 April and finish work on 7 April, that's 365 days' continuous employment. The fact that you might have started at 9.00am and finished at 5.00pm - 16 hours short of a year - made no difference. The worker had her rights and her claim for unfair dismissal stood. Whether or not you want to exploit the rules in this way, it's important at least to know what they are! |
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