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Employment law briefing: 27 April 2007

27 April 2007 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7270 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Employment
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DTI gets egg on its face, The Gibbons review, What should replace abandoned statutory procedures?

On a Thursday towards the end of March, your humble author was speaking at an employment law conference in London, giving the session on the statutory dismissal and grievance procedures, castigating them thoroughly, but giving the prediction that they would not be abandoned because of the amount of egg-on-face for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which had been so keen to impose them. At that exact moment, the DTI announced that the procedures were to be repealed completely.

Given this unerring accuracy and sense of timing on my part, giving me my new official position as Jonah to the world of employment law, I invite readers to write in to me with employment laws that they would love to see go so that I can arrange to speak on them, thus triggering this uncanny reaction from the DTI. Actually, as a list of such laws is likely to be unmanageable, please do not do

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