A piece in today’s Times (£). Of course the term ‘staff’ in the headline (above) can be replaced by ‘female staff’. Surely no man would take a case to a tribunal for being made to work ‘too hard’? Their instinct would be to find a new job before doing such a thing.

This Labour government says its #1 priority is to create economic growth, while implementing measures to discourage companies from taking on new employees, and deterring wealth creators through planned measures such as imposing inheritance tax on non-doms’ global wealth. Madness on stilts.

The article explains that ministers are considering allowing staff to bring claims that they have been made to work more than the maximum 48 hours permitted under the European working time directive, which was incorporated into UK law by the previous Labour government. Currently this limit can only be enforced by bodies such as councils and the Health and Safety Executive, but the Law Commission wants tribunals to gain the power to hear such cases.

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