Despite the new Age Discrimination laws, employers can still compulsorily retire their employees at (usually) age 65 so long as they follow a lengthy and mostly pointless procedure. For me, this is another example of why the laws don’t make any sense, but Age Concern more constructively thought that the compulsory retirement provisions went [...]
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In the recent case of Harris v NKL Automotive the Employment Appeal Tribunal had to decide whether or not a Rastafarian chauffeur, Mr Harris, had been discriminated against when he was told that his hair was too untidy for his job. Mr Harris made a number of claims, one of which was that given his [...] I’m getting all my changes to this blog done now, while no-one’s reading it but me. I’ve just discovered that I’ve picked the exact same colour scheme as the excellent Magistrate’s Blog. He (or is it she?) was there first, so I’ve had to change. Have a read: So let’s get started! The new increase in holiday entitlements has caused much confusion. It’s bank holidays that cause the difficulty you see. Calling them bank holidays, public holidays, and worst of all statutory holidays gives people the understandable impression that they’re actually entitled to take them off. Not so. There is actually no [...] We spend more time at work than we do anywhere else, and let’s face it – sometimes work is interesting, sometimes it’s fun, and sometime we miss it when we don’t go. The other 95% of the time we struggle with our tasks, our bosses, and (for some of us) our employees. As it says on [...] |
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