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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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Hey, Barons Adonis & Cashman, some Bills are only about women. Get over it.

Posted on February 24, 2021 by wonkypolicywonk

Last week, it emerged that Hibo Wardere, a survivor of and indefatigable campaigner against what even the woke kids at Amnesty International still call Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), has started selling T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “I am a woman. … 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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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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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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Brexit: Never really over

Posted on December 13, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

(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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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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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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