Staff told to vary their terms and conditions were dismissed, says EAT

P Browning
Member - 9 posts

We are very likely to agree that the law can, at times, be completely asinine - but here we even have the Gods of the Law Society not able to get it right ! So what chance can there ever be for those mere mortals who struggle hard in the real world to keep people in employment ? In this case the Law Society, as employers, appear to have relied so heavily upon compliance with their statutory obligations under Equality law that they made a decision which, on the limited facts here given was, in effect, automatically unfair. My point is this - If the law is so blinking complicated that even such august employers as the Law Society cannot understand or apply it, is it not fair to state that, if an ordinary employer cannot understand the law, it must automatically and at once bear unfairly upon him or her ? How can anyone reasonably expect compliance with law that even such learned people cannot properly interpret ? In other words, an employer is guilty even before knowing the nature of the charge. What, we ask, can we make of such blatantly unfair and conflicting legislation ? Spanish Inquisition, eat your heart out ! End of Rant !