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About wonkypolicywonk

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

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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ET awards: looks like we’ve got us a trend thingy

Posted on September 10, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Six months ago, I noted on this blog that, in 2014/15, there had been a marked increase in the median awards for unfair dismissal or discrimination (the only jurisdictions for which the lackadaisical HMCTS bothers to record the relevant data). … Continue reading →

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Enforcement of the NMW – a fair sport?

Posted on August 25, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Earlier this month, the newly re-named Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS, formerly BIS) named & shamed another batch of 197 NMW rogues. With six months having passed since the last batch, in early February, BEIS was able … Continue reading →

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What does the appointment of Liz Truss as justice secretary mean for the MoJ review of employment tribunal fees?

Posted on July 15, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

I’m sorry I haven’t a clue. Update (19 July): However, with the enforced departure from the MoJ this week of both slow-reading junior injustice minister Shailesh Vara and slightly less junior injustice minister Dominic Raab – who appeared to have … Continue reading →

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Justice by Committee

Posted on July 6, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

No, it wasn’t the report we #ukemplaw nerds have been holding our breath for. We are still waiting for the Ministry of Justice’s report of its post-implementation review of the justice-denying employment tribunal (ET) fees introduced in July 2013. But … Continue reading →

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Latest ET stats. Nothing to see, move along.

Posted on June 9, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

It would be nice if the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics, published by the Ministry of Injustice today, provided some distraction from the imminence of World War III, the associated bonfire of all our employment rights, and … Continue reading →

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