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Author Archives: wonkypolicywonk
Latest ET claim stats: onwards and upwards
Once again, there is some good news this morning for any underemployed employment lawyers, with the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics, covering the period October to December 2019 (Q3 of 2019/20), showing yet another small increase in the … Continue reading
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It’s a shame about BEIS
So, just like James Bond, naming & shaming of employers who breach the national minimum/living wage is back. Well, almost back. Having been suspended since the last round of naming & shaming in July 2018, pending the outcome of a … Continue reading
Posted in Workers' rights
Tagged naming & shaming, National minimum wage, NMW enforcement
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New Year, new enforcement body?
So, Boris Johnson held and won the general election that, back in August, I predicted he might well hold and win on the back of a ‘deal’ with the EU27 that, at that time, most commentators thought less likely than … Continue reading
New ET claim stats: don’t hold the front page
On Friday, when you were possibly too busy drowning your sorrows to notice, the Ministry of Injustice published the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics, covering the period July to September 2019 (Q2 of 2019/20). And, at first … Continue reading
Brexit: Never really over
(With apologies to Katy Perry) I’m losing my self-control Fuck, the Tories got back in But I don’t wanna fall down the rabbit hole Cross my heart, I can’t do it again I tell myself, tell myself, tell myself, “Draw … Continue reading
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Personal Independence Payment – a saga
This post – about my son’s recent reassessment for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) by the DWP – will only be of interest to those applying for PIP or advising those doing so, and is posted in case it is helpful … Continue reading
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Tagged Personal Independence Payment, PIP, Social Security Appeals
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Single Enforcement Body: Will the Tories boldly go where Labour and the Lib Dems failed to tread?
In July, the Government launched a formal, 12-week consultation on a proposal to establish a new Single Enforcement Body for employment rights. You might even have submitted a response (the consultation closed yesterday). And you probably concluded that it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment rights, Enforcement, Good Work, Single Enforcement Body, Taylor Review
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Brexit: Till we get the healing done
So, as Jim Pickard of the Financial Times noted on Twitter yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn “has worked out what would heal the divided nation, and it’s a [second] referendum on EU membership”. Yep, in his speech to the Labour Party conference in … Continue reading
ET claim numbers: nothing to see, move along
So, the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal statistics – covering the period April to June 2019 (Q1 of 2019/20) – was published by the Ministry of Injustice yesterday, and it is time to play another round of that thrilling … Continue reading
Brexit: Do Johnson, Gove & Cummings have a cunning plan?
Do Johnson, Gove & Cummings have a cunning plan? Honestly mate, I haven’t got a fucking clue. No one has. Maybe not even them. No, it’s a mug’s game making predictions about what may happen between now and Halloween – … Continue reading
