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P Browning
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Only those employers who (like me) will actually have been duped by a job applicant will know how wrong the law is presently. The lady sat in front of me very sweetly and of course, we could not, and did not, talk 'family' but, having obviously been well aware of her condition, within a week of starting the job, she filed for maternity leave. How unfair was that ?
Further, what is presently to stop any lady from entering a contract of employment and then filing for immediate maternity leave, even before the agreed start-date ?
I am all for fairness in employment matters but fairness is (or used to be) a two-edged sword. Just how much longer should employers be regarded as another branch of the Social Services ?
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P Browning
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This is just one more example of the way that Lawyers have completely ruined what was once the people's court. Tribunals were initially places where matters could be resolved informally. Now that the fat-fee legal system has got such a firm hold on them, the goal-posts are placed in a constantly moving kaleidoscope so that lay people are now severely disadvantaged in presenting their cases, no matter how hard the Chairman (sorry, I'm not very p.c.) tries to help them through the minefield. Lawyers make laws - in parliament and in the courts. They specialise in splitting etymological hairs to the nth. degree, and then you go to Europe for an even rougher legal ride. But only if you've got the time and the money.
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