An employment lawyer has gained a cult business following after suggesting on his blog that the unfair dismissal law should be scrapped.
Mark Ellis, a solicitor at business consultancy Ellis Whittam, said the law benefited lawyers and staff at the expense of the UK economy.
"Are the feelings and the personal hardship suffered by an individual employee more important than the success and happiness of UK plc?" he posted earlier this month.
There were 41,832 unfair dismissal claims in 2005-06, according to the Employment Tribunal Service. But Ellis told Personnel Today that if organisations were able to sack people they didn't like, productivity would soar, and there would be more work and money for everyone.
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