Minimum two years in the job. David Cameron told small businesses he would cut bureaucracy and red tape. Within the framework of a reflection on the removal of obstacles preventing SMEs from growing, Lord Young, former Secretary of State for Trade under the Thatcher administration, who recently published a report deregulating health and safety, is working on unfair dismissal. Currently, employees have to work for their employer for 12 months to be able to lodge an unfair dismissal claim. Young wants to increase this to 24 months, to cut down on “spurious claims from former members of staff who have a grudge against their employer.” “I want to find out what small business people themselves think about this” Young told the BBC. If a 12-week consultation is launched soon and this amendment added to the law, it could be enforced as early as April 2011, experts say.
ainst their employer.” “I want to find out what small business people themselves think about this” Young told the BBC. If a 12-week consultation is launched soon and this amendment added to the law, it could be enforced as early as April 2011, experts say.
True efficiency? Generally speaking, lawyers aren’t convinced by what John Read, employment law editor at XPertHR said would be “a major regressive step for employee rights.” He thinks that this could lead employers to “sack staff for what
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