Cameron Supports Report to Scrap Unfair Dismissal

The Daily Telegraph today reveals the Beecroft Report - originally rumoured to be proposing the scrapping of maternity rights for workers - which has instead proposed the scrapping of the right to claim Unfair Dismissal. The Telegraph claims that the report, written by a venture capitalist for the Government, is supported by Downing Street and by the Chancellor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8849420/Give-firms-freedom-to-sack-unproductive-workers-leaked-Downing-Street-report-advises.html

The report cites the public sector as an example where 'unproductive workers' are allowed to 'coast along' and are only finally dismissed after expensive settlements are agreed. The report proposes therefore to allow employers a new right of 'compensated no fault dismissal' - a right to sack so called 'unproductive workers' without fear of unfair dismissal claims.

The report is due to be published later this year.