Employment Tribunal - my experience

astroL

Forumites may find this impossible to believe - but it happened to me.

Back in the early 1990s I was working as an IT tutor and had a long list of adult applicants for my courses. As a former government scientist my experience and knowledge of computing at that time was 'pretty good'.  Then I was called in to see the boss who merely told me that I was being declared redundant (despite my long waiting lists of students).  My 'job' was to be taken over by the local CFE that had just bought the company and was sacking all the staff.  Their own IT courses were sparsely attended and they wanted to kill the competition.

In due course I applied to the IR Tribunal and was granted a session.  The CFE rep announced that it would be 'embarrassing' if the Court found against the complainant (me) even though they acknowledged that they had broken many employment laws.  The 'chairman' approved their request and my complaint was dismissed.

If anyone ever claims that these Tribunals are 'fair', let them know the truth.

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Wyndham

I'm not sure that something that happened over 30 years ago is necessarily helpful to share on a forum like this. You may also want to take your name off of the post.

Ayr_Rage

What is CFE ?

Maybe better in Praise, Vents and Warnings as the incident is so old.

lincroft1710

Wyndham said:

I'm not sure that something that happened over 30 years ago is necessarily helpful to share on a forum like this. You may also want to take your name off of the post.

I agree. a lot has happened in 30 years.


I presume "IR" is Industrial Relations but as some one else has asked "what is CFE?" 

mybestattempt

Could CFE be college of further education?

Marcon

astroL said:

Forumites may find this impossible to believe - but it happened to me.

Back in the early 1990s I was working as an IT tutor and had a long list of adult applicants for my courses. As a former government scientist my experience and knowledge of computing at that time was 'pretty good'.  Then I was called in to see the boss who merely told me that I was being declared redundant (despite my long waiting lists of students).  My 'job' was to be taken over by the local CFE that had just bought the company and was sacking all the staff.  Their own IT courses were sparsely attended and they wanted to kill the competition.

In due course I applied to the IR Tribunal and was granted a session.  The CFE rep announced that it would be 'embarrassing' if the Court found against the complainant (me) even though they acknowledged that they had broken many employment laws.  The 'chairman' approved their request and my complaint was dismissed.

If anyone ever claims that these Tribunals are 'fair', let them know the truth.

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History often has much to teach us, but if you wait over a quarter of a century to share it, then possibly not...seems people don't even know what CFE stands for (College of Further Education) - the world has moved on.

Maybe sit in on a few modern day tribunals? Or if you are still bitter - and your post suggests that's the case - perhaps you need professional help to come to terms with an event which took place so long ago but is still clouding your life.

robatwork

astroL said:

 The CFE rep announced that it would be 'embarrassing' if the Court found against the complainant (me) even though they acknowledged that they had broken many employment laws.  The 'chairman' approved their request and my complaint was dismissed.

This bit doesn't make sense. As they found against you, were they not 'embarrassed'? 

Or did you mean the opposite of what you said?