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About wonkypolicywonk

Wonkypolicywonk is a recovering policy minion, assigned wonky at birth.

ET fees: lies, damn lies, and Ministry number-crunching

Posted on June 14, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Previously on this blog, I had a pop at the Ministry of Injustice’s attempt – in its laughably poor report of its laughably poor internal review of the ET fees regime introduced in July 2013 – to put a figure on … Continue reading →

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ET fees: a statistical injustice

Posted on June 9, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

The quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics issued by the Ministry of Injustice haven’t been terribly newsworthy since the figures became somewhat lacking in variability in mid-2014. So there was very little chance of the latest set – published at 9.30am … Continue reading →

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BEIS: Not so good with the name thingies.

Posted on May 25, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

“I’ve never been too good with names,” sang Evan Dando and The Lemonheads on the title track of their fifth album It’s a shame about Ray in 1992. The song (and the album) is an indie classic that has easily … Continue reading →

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There you go, Theresa May. Fixed that Brexit White Paper foreword for you.

Posted on February 5, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk
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On an allotment, somewhere in London N1 …

Posted on January 29, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Aide 1: So, we switch our vote on the EU (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill. As a show of defiance against Trumpzi isolationism. Aide 2: Even May’s own MPs are appalled by what she’s done. She’s on the back foot. We … Continue reading →

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Has the Ministry of Justice solved the problem of unpaid ET awards?

Posted on December 21, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Last month on this blog, I included the low incidence to date of section 150 penalties for non-payment of an employment tribunal (ET) award – just 37 penalty notices, as of 4 November, according to BEIS’s answer to a parliamentary … Continue reading →

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So long 2016, and thanks for all the #ukemplaw reviews

Posted on December 15, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

So, 2016 ends with not one, not two, but four ongoing reviews of the so-called ‘gig economy’ and all that is wrong with our 21st century labour market. Well, maybe not all that is wrong with our labour market, but definitely … Continue reading →

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ET fees: ‘full and careful’ consideration of the evidence

Posted on November 15, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

So, now we know. Brexit means Brexit, and ‘in due course’ means, well, in due course. And, thanks to a parliamentary question by Labour MP Dawn Butler, we also know that the government’s review of employment tribunal (ET) fees has been … Continue reading →

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ET fees: Ministry of Justice keeps us in the dark

Posted on October 17, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Q: How many Ministry of Justice ministers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: The Ministry’s plan for changing the lightbulb will be published in due course. Yep, when it comes to its internal review of the justice-denying employment … Continue reading →

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ET costs awards: what’s been going on?

Posted on September 22, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Rooting around in the latest set of quarterly ET statistics in the hope of finding something of interest – other than the emergent upward trend in median ET awards highlighted in my previous post – I was somewhat taken aback by … Continue reading →

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