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Monday, December 23, 2013

Are You Happy In Your Work, Little Prole?

Britain's workplaces have become small paradises of equality and tolerance since the Government's introduction of fines for talking back. Claims against employers for unfair dismissal have fallen by 55%, thanks in large part to the price which the Government extracts from anyone who dares to complain. It now costs £160 to launch a basic claim and £230 to gain a tribunal hearing; and naturally, when the complaint is something trivial, time-wasting, red-tapey and European the price rises even further. Cases of unfair dismissal, sexual or racial discrimination, and sackings for whistleblowing are punishable by fines of £250 for launching a claim and £950 for requesting a tribunal hearing. According to the Government's Duncan Smith logic, it is self-evident that anyone who cannot afford to bring a case has no case; and if the number of complaints is dropping then conditions must clearly be improving. Of course, unions and lawyers and other troublemakers are making noises about the legality of the whole idea; but such petty mundane concerns are unlikely to bother Chris Graybeing, the Minister of Justice and Heterosexual Hostelry, or his glamorous new sidekick Simon Hughes.

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