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Re: Help with appeal. Opinions?
There is nothing wrong with being a trouble maker if you do it right. But you catch more flies with honey... Don't fight until you have to.
As my friend Labman pointed out, I approach these matters objectively. Because that's what the law does. People get into legal fights and then claim the law is biased. Sometimes it is, but more often than not they simply don't understand what the law is saying. The first law of employment law is to try and sort things out before there is a fight! Understand what the law says, yes. Be sure that you aren't fighting for something it doesn't say, because that just makes you look silly or incompetent. But sort it if you can, because if everyone walks away happy, or even equally unhappy, but can live with it, you all win. Your condition isn't going away. You want your employer rooting for you as long as possible. One day you may have to fight, but pick the battle you have to wage, because losing it this early in the game means your arsenal is spent.
Originally posted by Qpips
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As my friend Labman pointed out, I approach these matters objectively. Because that's what the law does. People get into legal fights and then claim the law is biased. Sometimes it is, but more often than not they simply don't understand what the law is saying. The first law of employment law is to try and sort things out before there is a fight! Understand what the law says, yes. Be sure that you aren't fighting for something it doesn't say, because that just makes you look silly or incompetent. But sort it if you can, because if everyone walks away happy, or even equally unhappy, but can live with it, you all win. Your condition isn't going away. You want your employer rooting for you as long as possible. One day you may have to fight, but pick the battle you have to wage, because losing it this early in the game means your arsenal is spent.
If you can come to an agreement that works, then that is always the best way. It is possible, not necessarily but possible, that one day you may struggle to work at all. But having your employer rooting for keeping you as long as possible is the best position to be in. And meanwhile, in all fairness, their policy stands. Some of these policies I think, personally, are rather harsh - but I understand why these policies exist (because some people took the p*ss and ended up winning tribunals because employers knew who was taking the p*ss and who wasn't, so they only dismissed the ones who were!), and why they have to be applied in the same way across the board (otherwise they end up back at the position of being in tribunals)
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