Dismissed from a part time job. Your views please.

[CrapHacker]

Bloody Bolshevik

 

[Fyldewhite]

Wow, what an interesting thread !! Not particularly the subject matter but the differing views expressed on both sides of the argument backed up by mostly bollocks.

1. The employer cannot make this deduction legally from his staff unless it is in the contract which lets face it is highly unlikely. OP, you are quite within your rights to complain and would win this if you took it further (though just for a few quid probably not worth it).
2. Employer is quite within their rights to finish you. There is little protection for an employee until they have 2 years service. This is one example of where employement law is weighted heavily in favour of the employer.
3. Chris, thank God we have decent employment protection in this country which previous generations have sweated blood and tears for. Unlucky if "redundancy costs" have cost you personally. I'm sure the people out of a job were over the moon too. The fact that you "will never employ people again" is probably a good thing all round.

 

[JustOne]

Totally agree with your principle here, if not your wording for it.

If the guy is bothered about keeping his job, then sometimes you have to put up or shut up.

Wasn't the entire sex discrimination act based around the fact that you shouldn't have to put up or shut up... ??

I'm sure bosses taking back a portion of your wages against your will wouldn't stand up too well in most courts, regardless of the reason behind it.

 

[thecraw]

I sense a failed businessman on the forum. Sadly unlike the Murphy's he is bitter!

There was never a need to call Farneyman a tool in the first instance.

 

[Smiffy]

There was never a need to call Farneyman a tool in the first instance.

Absolutely spot on.
Knob maybe, but tool???

 

[CrapHacker]

Totally agree with your principle here, if not your wording for it.

If the guy is bothered about keeping his job, then sometimes you have to put up or shut up.

Wasn't the entire sex discrimination act based around the fact that you shouldn't have to put up or shut up... ??

I'm sure bosses taking back a portion of your wages against your will wouldn't stand up too well in most courts, regardless of the reason behind it.

Absolutely

If it was you doing the sex offending, then the poor girl would be in tears before bedtime.

But if it was a fluffy bunny kinda guy like, say, me, then the girl wouldn't be sexually threatened, more inclined to feel sorry for me.

So I'm saying there's degrees of being in the wrong. And I agree that £1 a week isn't the most anyone's ever been ripped off.

So if, in our hypothetical situation, someone were to take someone else to court over the £1, the judges, who earn lots more than £1 a week, would, although the principle is vitally important, in actuality, probably not give a toss.

Real life, as opposed to theoretical nirvana, sometimes allows for the bad guy to win.

Which is why I suggested bringing in the Vat man. He'll see your sexual abuse, and raise it to double entry bookkeeping. And we all know which will lead to greater punishment in the courts.

Love and peace,

Your fluffy bunny political correspondent.

 

[viscount17]

So I'm saying there's degrees of being in the wrong. And I agree that £1 a week isn't the most anyone's ever been ripped off.

So if, in our hypothetical situation, someone were to take someone else to court over the £1, the judges, who earn lots more than £1 a week, would, although the principle is vitally important, in actuality, probably not give a toss.

does saying it's a deduction of around 4% make it sound a more reasonable complaint?

 

[Parmo]

Jesus H Christ, it was only a pound a week, why didnt you just question it with him verbally rather than getting all formative with him?

 

[Parmo]

Employment law is already so heavily weighted in favour of employee's its ridiculous

What a complete knob..

 

[Macster]

Parmo - I polish it regularly.

You are obviously employed too I take it ?

 

[Parmo]

Parmo - I polish it regularly.

You are obviously employed too I take it ?

No I am not, I am a man of leisure at this time. I was a tad harsh, I do apologise.

I think the worst time I have experienced employers has been in recent times, they think they can pay low wages and do what the like. I recently started a job which offered a good wages between two sums on shifts so I accepted. I was messed about for a month whilst my government clearance was transfered. I started only to find out I could be working 5x12hr shifts in a row, working nights in a building alone without time set aside for breaks, all of which is illegal and that they had dropped a two grand of the starting salary without consulting me and then denied offering me the salary, and they thought I would accept a job not knowing the wage!!

 

[CrapHacker]

So I'm saying there's degrees of being in the wrong. And I agree that £1 a week isn't the most anyone's ever been ripped off.

So if, in our hypothetical situation, someone were to take someone else to court over the £1, the judges, who earn lots more than £1 a week, would, although the principle is vitally important, in actuality, probably not give a toss.

does saying it's a deduction of around 4% make it sound a more reasonable complaint?

Nope.

 

[Farneyman]

Just an update, the Employment Tribunal mob have accepted my applicaion so it means that I must have some sort of case against the old work or the Tribunal mob was have rejected it......Just have to wait and see now. Will keep you posted.