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Are hairdressers really *that* bad at paying the NMW?
With the Workers’ Party – or is it the Party of Equality? – leaving no stone unturned in its titanic struggle to “end discrimination and finish the fight for equality in our country”, last month saw...
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The Independent: It isn’t, are you?
Having spent three decades banging my head against the brick wall of government policy-making, and trying to persuade our famously independent press and media to pay just a teeny weeny bit of attention...
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We should perhaps take encouragement from the fact that, on the same day it published the transcript of its oral evidence session on the impact of the Coalition’s disastrous employment tribunal fees,...
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The one in which Mrs Wonky and I are as one
Last weekend, as Mrs Wonky and I walked to the bus stop together – not something that happens very often – conversation turned to the abolition of the paper tax disc. We know how to live, do we...
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Hurry up, Mr Vara!
If you were travelling to work on the 159 bus yesterday morning, and the peace of your journey was ruined by a lot of swearing, moaning and face-palming by a clearly disturbed man in the front seat,...
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Vulnerable workers: Tories boldly go where Labour and the Lib Dems feared to...
WARNING: This blog post contains words of praise for the Tories. This post should have appeared on Hard Labour a couple of months ago. However, when I realised what I would be saying, I had to...
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Impact of ET fees: a Hancock and bull story
Warning: This post contains selected statistics, taken in isolation and out of context (© S Vara) So, today the Ministry of Injustice has coughed up another set of quarterly tribunal statistics – this...
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Oh look, a new set of quarterly ET statistics …. zzzzzzzzz
Warning: This post contains selected statistics, taken in isolation and out of context (© S Vara) I have already written here about how yesterday’s latest set of quarterly tribunal statistics has cast...
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When is an ET claim not a claim? (Answer: When it’s part of a case)
For some years now, policy debate around reform of the employment tribunal (ET) system has been befuddled by confusion – some of it inadvertent, some of it wilful and malevolent – about whether the...
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Who needs European Employment Rights
I logged into Twitter and someone had posted this image into my timeline. My eyes nearly rolled out of their sockets. The Brexit debate could scarcely be said to have been characterised by the...
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