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Originally Posted by Traduk
Yes you can but that is the crux of the proposal eg the removal of basically the right to appeal to ACAS.
I have employed people as a sole trader and also within the capacity of a director. The red tape reached proportions where we hired a HR specialist to make cases to stay within the law and avoid expensive ACAS settlements.
Anything which removes the safeguards which have built up will throw open a return to the past where nobody is safe and it is easy to build a case against anybody, not that building a case would be needed.
Doing a job diligently and to the best of one's ability is no safeguard against this proposal. If somebody else could and is willing to do the same job for less the replacement effectively is more productive than the the current worker which by default makes the current worker comparatively unproductive.
This proposal will never see the light of day because in effect it would create open season on a race to the bottom with wage\salary battles. Business may love the idea but it would be mayhem socially.
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I can see your point, and agree with you. However I haven't looked into this in detail, as it is only a proposal.
The idea is good, but there need to be safeguards built in to protect against employers who will use it as a weapon. An example would be staff who aren't actually productive due to the nature of their job. An example would be Firefighters, who apart from their fire safety work are reactive rather than productive. So in their case employers who need to make budget cuts could just say that Joe Bloggs isn't productive, so we will get rid of them. Then the worst case scenario would be when lives are lost due to their not being enough firefighters.