East Lancashire warning on unfair sacking payouts

4:00pm Tuesday 18th September 2012 in News

AN East Lancashire employment expert is warning businesses to stick to their usual legal procedures, despite plans to limit unfair dismissal payouts.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is consulting on plans to limit compensation claims by workers who believe they have been unfairly dismissed to a maximum of 12 months’ salary.

But Oliver McCann, partner in the employment team at Napthens solicitors’ Blackburn office, on the Greenbank Business Park, said the changes would mostly have a minimal impact.

He said: “The proposals are simply tinkering with the system, not addressing big issues.

“Businesses must be aware that these changes are not intended to make it easier for businesses to dismiss staff, but rather reduce the burden of red tape and costly tribunals.

Comments (5)

4:29pm Tue 18 Sep 12

shytalk says...

Many companies prefer to sack staff rather than make them redundant..it,s cheaper as it can take up to 2 yrs for a tribunal to be heard and any money from either benefits or wages from a new job is deducted from the settlement.
Workers have very few employment rights that can be realisticaly enforced by law these days.
Many companies prefer to sack staff rather than make them redundant..it,s cheaper as it can take up to 2 yrs for a tribunal to be heard and any money from either benefits or wages from a new job is deducted from the settlement. Workers have very few employment rights that can be realisticaly enforced by law these days. shytalk

4:33pm Tue 18 Sep 12

mavrick says...

This is designed to take away working people rights. This proposal will allow the unscrupulous employers to bully workers and hire and fire at will without any real accountability. The coalition has attacked ordinary people at all levels
Is it any wonder they have said they will stay in office until 2015.
This is designed to take away working people rights. This proposal will allow the unscrupulous employers to bully workers and hire and fire at will without any real accountability. The coalition has attacked ordinary people at all levels Is it any wonder they have said they will stay in office until 2015. mavrick

8:08pm Tue 18 Sep 12

Chris P Bacon says...

Yet more tory-sanctioned restrictions on hard-won legal employee rights. We all knew these sorts of sharp practices would come in to effect during a tory govern...regime. Par for the course and with only one way to remove it. Remove the ones who've imposed it.
Yet more tory-sanctioned restrictions on hard-won legal employee rights. We all knew these sorts of sharp practices would come in to effect during a tory govern...regime. Par for the course and with only one way to remove it. Remove the ones who've imposed it. Chris P Bacon

8:36pm Tue 18 Sep 12

jack daniels says...

Two very good comments above. Nobody actually voted these policies or this government. It's the people who voted lib dem who I feel sorry for.
Two very good comments above. Nobody actually voted these policies or this government. It's the people who voted lib dem who I feel sorry for. jack daniels

10:55am Wed 19 Sep 12

ossym says...

I worked extremely hard for a family run company for 15years to help build it up into something, but when the owners sons came of age things got very difficult for me, I was forced out over a long period to the great detriment of my health.
I took the company to the tribunal as I had no other option and was advised that even in the very best of circumstances an employee would only have a 40% chance of success, but I felt I had to do it to give a chance of at least future employment.
Of course all the relevant witnesses were either in the employ of, connected with the company or may have to rely on employment references in the future and so could not prove anything.

Anyway my point is maybe it would have been better to not work under the illusion that as an employee you have any enforceable rights at all, at least you would know where you stand!
I worked extremely hard for a family run company for 15years to help build it up into something, but when the owners sons came of age things got very difficult for me, I was forced out over a long period to the great detriment of my health. I took the company to the tribunal as I had no other option and was advised that even in the very best of circumstances an employee would only have a 40% chance of success, but I felt I had to do it to give a chance of at least future employment. Of course all the relevant witnesses were either in the employ of, connected with the company or may have to rely on employment references in the future and so could not prove anything. Anyway my point is maybe it would have been better to not work under the illusion that as an employee you have any enforceable rights at all, at least you would know where you stand! ossym

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