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Good luck

Lizxx

Definitely, Liz. Will see what emerges....

Worth looking into tho, Maggie

Lizx

They will be repaying those who paid.
As for those who couldn't afford it at the time - I expect there will be a time limit.
Mine was 2014.
The irony is, I've worked for them since, as a 'temp', and their 'reviews' (previously a way of gaining promotion, latterly a way of 'keeping you in your place') have become worse with regards to 'lower paid' workers rights.
As a temp I don't have to endure such things, but every time I work for them, I look at their 'review' process..
The latest one was demanding to know if the employee was 'negative' - (this was a minus on the 'scale') not WHY the employee was negative (cr*p working conditions and review processes)

According to Rollo's post - Supreme Court has ruled that the withdrawal of legal aid was illegal must be restored immediately.

Worth following up?

...and what about those who couldn't take their employers to a tribunal, because they couldn't afford the fees?
I've still got all my evidence......

Yesterday I got chatting to a clean, tidy, pleasant chap who told me he had been homeless for 4 weeks in his local town a few miles from Norwich. It seems he had been a security guard, one of 55, whose employer had been jailed for tax evasion and fraud, thus rendering all 55 guards unemployed. As a married man (28 years wed) with 4 children (presumably away from home, one lives in Wales) his mortgage payments lapsed, they lost the house and his wife left him. Seems she liked the good life and wasn't prepared to stick with someone not earning. Two weeks ago he was knocked off his bike and has some cracks in his spine.

All this catalogue of events because his boss being greedy and a crook. There are some rotters about.

Lizx

Not everybody can make good money working hard even in London. Employers wanting to pay significantly more for good reliable work find themselves losing business to thieves and rogues who ignore employment law esp relating to immigration , safety, discrimination and minimum wage.

No system of laws can work without effective enforcement. Yet the govt removed legal aid for employment cases thus throwing the doors wide open to thieves and rogues. Incredibly the govt itself was party to many illegal contracts with the lame excuse that the contractor had assured compliance.

Now the Supreme Court has ruled that the withdrawal of legal aid was illegal must be restored immediately and £32million fees paid refunded.

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