The government have already made it more difficult to claim unfair dismissal: an employee now needs two years’ service instead of one before they can bring a claim. This was no great surprise – it was two years from 1980 to 1999, when Labour reduced it to one year.
Then they considered doing away with unfair dismissal claims altogether and replacing them with “no fault dismissal” ie fixed compensation for dismissal, at a much lower level than present, without any need to establish unfairness. This was suggested in a report by the venture capitalist and Wonga investor Adrian Beecroft who happens to have given over half a million pounds to the Conservatives in the last five years.
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