Title: Your job is not worth a lot... and that’s official
Subtitle: Unfair dismissal compensation very low
Date: 1996
Source: Retrieved on 7th December 2021 from struggle.ws
Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 48 — Summer 1996.
Mirror of: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/workers-solidarity-movement-your-job-is-not-worth-a-lot-and-that-s-official.muse

Workers Solidarity Movement

Your job is not worth a lot... and that’s official
Unfair dismissal compensation very low

THE ANNUAL report of the 26 county Employment Appeals Tribunal states that of the the 391 cases before it, 199 claims of unfair dismissal were upheld. However the Tribunal only ordered that 29 people get their jobs back, and 16 of those had to lose their years of service. In the other cases an average of £4,993 compensation was awarded. Not a lot if you are facing years, or even a lifetime, on the dole. And this is when the Tribunal has decided that the sacking was illegal.