Radical new employment laws under consideration - Unfair dismissal

A new report, which has been commissioned by the government, is recommending that workers no longer be able to claim unfair dismissal because current rules are having a negative impact on the efficiency and competitiveness of business.

The report, from venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft, in its final draft says that the rules as they stand make it very difficult to prove that someone deserves to be dismissed from a firm and it is too easy for workers to get compensation by claiming that they have been unfairly treated.

Mr Beecroft, in the report, proposes a new system, called Compensated No Fault Dismissal, which would enable a firm to fire a member of staff with basic redundancy pay and notice. He says that such a move would reduce the amount of red tape that businesses have to deal with when sacking a worker and that currently too many firms are having to accept inefficiency because they know that to get rid of a member of staff would lead to a potentially expensive legal process.

The Beecroft proposals are likely to find favour with many in the Conservative Party, but will be fiercely opposed by their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats as well as the trade unions. A Downing Street spokesman said that the government had not yet decided whether to adopt the plans outlined in Beecroft’s report.

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