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Shake up of employment laws needed

July 20, 2009 by admin  
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It has recently been claimed that some employers in the UK are abusing employment legislation by ignoring regulations in order to get rid of employees without going through the property procedures.

With the recession still ongoing, and employers increasingly deciding to axe employees to save money, there are now concerns that the abuse of employment laws will continue to get worse.

MPs, union officials, and even workers that have lost their jobs are now calling for employment legislation to be looked at and revised to stop this abuse by employers.

They have raised concerns that even though some employers are not going through proper procedures, such as giving employees thirty days notice for fewer than one hundred redundancies and ninety days notice for a greater number of redundancies, no action is being taken against the employers.

One former manager who was made redundant stated: ‘The law is totally inadequate, with no protection for the employee. Employers can just flout the law. In the UK companies face a fine, but in France and Germany they have to stick to the law or you can get a jail term. Our concern is not that we have been made redundant, just the way it has been done.’

Speaking about the company that the former manager used to work for, Peter Skyte, national officer with the Unite union stated: ‘We will be using all available industrial, legal and political avenues to challenge the approach of the company and its administrators. The law does not provide an effective remedy when employers can ignore it.’

He also said: ‘Light-touch employment legislation in the UK is being exploited.’

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