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was a relief to read that double your unfair dismissal rights and the introduction of a tax, the Court will allow companies the confidence to start hiring again (plan Osborne at the expense of workers labor unions in the courts of anger, October 4). He was wrong in the bottom of all time in business confidence born of heavier issues: the global economic crisis, to name just one. But according to George Osborne, and taken by the Director General of the CBI, is a fear of being brought before the Labour Court is to deter some companies.

As someone who has represented employers and employees, my experience is that sometimes an employee will make a reasonable request unreasonable. Just as sometimes a reasonable standard to prepare a reasonable defense for a very reasonable request. Both should be penalized for having lost the other (and judicial) of time and resources. However, the labor courts have jurisdiction to punish a party genuinely complex or poorly designed by the award of legal fees and the powers of the strike desperate claims at the earliest.
employers whose business plans include hiring personnel, not afraid to get sued (an unusual business plan), should perhaps be warned that if the period is a or two years, and regardless of whether or not a court fee, an employee who intends to file a lawsuit will bring. More than likely, the request is made in different terms (such as termination or discrimination, where there is no period) and the time and costs involved as much or more.

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have no business hiring process fairly reasonable but rigorous. I do not claim that it is failsafe, but the alternative is to deny reasonable people (which is most of us) the fundamental right to challenge the real injustice when it occurs.

Elizabeth George

law lawyer employment and discrimination, Leigh Day & Co

. Ed Miliband point exactly. There are good companies and leaders and there are those who could not give a lot of employees or any other person and only care about their own short term interests. Which category do not put someone on staff would be required if it is easier for them to be fired?

David Wotherspoon

Downholland, Buenos Aires

. George Osborne would have us believe that advertising expenditures before and during the conference of conservatives are "unique" that do not affect the strategy of deficit reduction (Chancellor extends freeze on local taxes , October 3). However, if one believes Eric Pickles, the £ 250 which has raised in the air is a continuous supply of local governments to reverse the fortnightly bin collections. Leave aside for a moment that is not likely to be the main legal challenges if the money is not distributed equally among all local authorities and to consider a freeze on local taxes affecting the ability of local governments to provide services.

The money was removed from the possibility of government spending next year. We, together, in the region of £ 1 billion, which could have responded to the urgent need to stop cuts in essential services. After all, the actual loss is not what you talk about pickles, but about 1 million unemployed youth, and the virtual demolition of the youth and careers services across the country, with the loss of life goes with it. Add to that the number of youth who have lost their education, support, and surely the question should be: Can we use these resources more intelligently
addition, the freezing of council tax means that not only the basis on which Council tax increases will be frozen for another year, but of course, the inability to raise local funds still distorts the balance between local government, central government are and what you can increase the share of local taxpayers. The consequences of this are profoundly perverse: Once again, the richest region, the better for top-down decision-making from central government to freeze council tax, budget cutting and distortion. So much for localism.

David Blunkett MP

Work , Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough

. George Osborne has just found £ 1.1 billion on the back of your sofa to make collections and council tax freeze. Where can I get a sofa like that? DFS?

John Richards

St. Ives
Adlington, Lancashire