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Originally Posted by Hugh
i agreed with you on the other two, but you avoided my question on why the WTD is a bad thing...
The process may not have been ideal, but the outcome was optimal (unless you are an employer who didn’t want to give your employees decent holidays or working hours).
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Yes, they do - it’s illegal to force employees to opt out.
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And who will forge new trade deals with us, when if we take a no deal Brexit and walk away, we show we are not willing to honour deals?
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Just because something is illegal doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. However, force isn't usually used, it's much more subtle than that and it's sometimes the employee who opts out 'voluntarily', even when they don't want to.
In the real world staff are afraid that not doing so when 'encouraged' to could ruin promotion prospects or could make them a primary consideration should redundancies ever become neccessary because they fear not being viewed as a team player or it being suggested that they don't put the company first.
In a worst case scenario, it's not too difficult for employers to find excuses to get rid of somebody.