Rojgar Job News

In the employment world, some legislative ideas just don’t work. Some have promise initially but don’t survive their first encounter with the real world – take a look at 2001’s Dignity at Work Bill, for example, to all outward appearances a brilliant spoof of a real piece of legislation but clearly written by someone with no actual experience of the workplace whatsoever. Other ideas make it into law but are by common and unspoken consent then broadly ignored, like employee shareholder status and (for those of a certain vintage) the Statutory Grievance and Disciplinary Procedures, both introduced to great fanfare and repealed in embarrassment and confusion very shortly afterwards. On the other hand, some ideas are so clearly and irretrievably doomed from the very moment of their conception that they do not deserve to see the light of day at all. And so a big hand, please, for the TUC’s proposal to introduce legislation to outlaw workplace discrimination on t...