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About wonkypolicywonk

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

Is the paternity leave system “broken”?

Posted on September 20, 2021 by wonkypolicywonk

How many women go on statutory maternity pay in the UK each year? Go on, have a guess. Or maybe you know the number? Perhaps you do. Or maybe you only think you do. According to news reports last month … Continue reading →

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Employment Tribunal claims: Will the Lewis-Thomson Theorem pass the test of time?

Posted on June 10, 2021 by wonkypolicywonk

With the release this morning of the latest set of quarterly Employment Tribunal (ET) statistics, covering Q4 of 2020/21 (Jan – Mar 2021), and with last week having seen the latest farcical performance of the ‘spot a quirk in the … Continue reading →

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Garbage press reports about ET claims soar since Covid lockdown

Posted on June 1, 2021 by wonkypolicywonk

AGE DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS IN SCOTLAND SOAR BY 13,000%, THEN DROP LIKE A BRICK By Amelia Hill, Senior Reporter at the Guardian, Charles Hymas, Home Affairs Editor of the Telegraph, Giles Sheldrick, Chief Reporter at the Daily Express, Steve Doughty at … Continue reading →

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You never miss the ET claims, until they are gone

Posted on May 13, 2021 by wonkypolicywonk

With apologies to Chaka Khan, the latest set of weekly HMCTS management information on the backlog of Employment Tribunal (ET) cases – which the Ministry of Injustice has been publishing since the fourth month of the pandemic, alongside that for … Continue reading →

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Employment Tribunals: The Times they are a-changin’

Posted on February 2, 2021 by wonkypolicywonk

Yes, as you will know unless you are spending #Lockdown3 on Mars, on Monday the Times newspaper and its Investigations Editor Dominic Kennedy went Back to the Future of 2011, with not one but four articles straight out of the … Continue reading →

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Binary arithmetic

Posted on July 31, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

News that the global Covid19 lockdown has led to two pandas in Hong Kong Zoo mating for the first time in ten years seems as good a reason as any for me to blog, for the first time, about sex. … Continue reading →

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ET claims: no sign of the end of garbage press reports

Posted on May 26, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

Previously on this blog, I have noted that this year sees the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Equal Pay Act 1970. And I suppose it was only to be expected that one or more law firms would use … Continue reading →

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Dominic’s cumming home

Posted on May 24, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

He’s cumming home, He’s cumming home, Dominic’s cumming home. But which home? On what date? And by what means of transport? These and many other questions remain unanswered, 24 hours after 14 out of 26 Cabinet ministers took to Twitter to … Continue reading →

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Shared Parental Leave: No need for candles

Posted on May 5, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

Until it got wiped out by the Covid19 pandemic, this year was a busy one for #ukemplaw anniversaries. And many of them are (or, at least, were) a cause for celebration: the Equal Pay Act 1970 is 50 years old … Continue reading →

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Latest ET claim stats: onwards and upwards

Posted on March 12, 2020 by wonkypolicywonk

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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