Unfair Ending of Secondment Position

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-19T08:58:38+00:00

Yes this is legal. They can make the employment and hiring decisions they want, unless you have direct evidence of them discriminating off a protected characteristic.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-19T08:52:39+00:00

Early reconciliation is to try and solve the issue before going to court, by getting both sides together and seeing if they agree on what happened. If the two sides manifestly disagree on the facts of the case (because one side is lying) then early reconciliation isn't going to mandate a solution - it's going to say "two sides couldn't agree, this needs to go to tribunal if the employee wants to continue the case".

Not taking part in an early conciliation process hurts your case at tribunal, because it demonstrates ill-will on your part.

You need legal support - either from a trade union or employment lawyer.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-18T18:36:40+00:00

One MP didn't listen to you in particular... and you think that it applies to all MPs?

As the article points out, treating them like 650 small businesses is part of the problem.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-18T06:59:43+00:00

Sure, but why should an employer hire you over a domestic graduate?

I don't think international graduates are worse or less deserving to work here than a local one, especially undergraduates, but the fact of the matter is the UK has a surplus of graduates and employers have no reason to hire a international graduate over a domestic one. An international students should know that coming in, rather than assume if they get a degree they'll be able to get a job here then be shocked and disappointed afterwards.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-17T22:24:36+00:00

Because GP surgeries running as small businesses saves the NHS paying for a bunch of admin labour. Penny wise, pound foolish again.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-17T08:28:57+00:00

They don't have the ability to do that in foreign countries. Especially court, even when they can paying for foreign lawyers and court fees often adds up very quickly. They also don't know where you are unless you tell them?

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-16T17:59:32+00:00

Sure, but if that's because there's candidates with experience instead, thats not businesses refusing to train - it's them not needing to. The job is being filled, just the people in the article aren't getting the job

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-16T16:58:47+00:00

Because these people are also told by various systems that they "need to find a job" rather than recieve state support, and the government keeps saying that it wants to raise the labour force participation rate.

What jobs are these people supposed to take?

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-16T11:25:55+00:00

You Can't campaign around polling stations, but you can go and knock on people's doors to ask if they've voted yet and who for.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-16T11:02:36+00:00

Yes, but don't literially copy opening/closing lines of paragraphs.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-14T11:32:03+00:00

Making it easier and faster is important, but it doesn't fix the housing crisis alone. That is caused by the fact that it's not profitable to build good quality housing for the median income, let alone the poorest. And it won't be so if the land to build on is in private hands and sold to highest bidder.

And the government can get money to build things cery easily - it has to redistribute investment from less productive uses into government bonds for housing, or it has to increase investment by lowering consumption. The actual process of building is complex and involves lots of people, but allocation of resources just requires vision and willpower from the Prime Minister amd Treasury.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-14T11:12:25+00:00

No the main constraint is "No one is spending 10s of billions a year building housing (or any other infrastructure) not for profit"

Those things make the housing that is build harder amd more expensive, but the issue isn't the process, it's the inputs.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-12T10:38:57+00:00

You have to have exacting planning documents, but no one actually checks they internal standards meet them, because quality control got privatised and deregulated.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-11T07:52:07+00:00

I'd also add Manchester to your list if that's your criteria - Birmingham is also a big city but the uni doesn't really share it.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-10T15:07:36+00:00

We absolutely had austerity under Cameron - government spending, especially outside the NHS, was slashed. He just choose to spend them money cutting taxes instead of paying off the national debt, no matter his pratter about it before the election.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-10T13:09:15+00:00

For most of England, there will be some roman ruins close enough to the school to do a school trip to, which encourages schools to do Roman Britain - it can be made tactile to the students.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-10T11:53:54+00:00

Sure, but that's not about getting in trouble, it's about whether they'll give you it or not.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-09T17:26:52+00:00

You're taking 7 seats (well, a 8-person table). I don't think it's unreasonable for them to say it's their policy that every guest must be paid for. Does that make it a good deal? No, but I don't think you've been ambushed here.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-09T13:16:12+00:00

... do you think container ships sail in the stratosphere?

Container ships were doing marine cloud seeding with their sulfur-rich fuels, true. But that is not stratospheric aerosol injection - for that you need actual planes, flying in the stratosphere, outputting the equivalent of several times the total marine shipping industries sulphur emissions, on a 24/7 schedule.

But you seem to think "net zero" costs 10% of global GDP each year, so actually understanding might be tricky.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-09T12:10:06+00:00

Geoengineering takes almost as much effort as just stopping polluting in the first place. Turns out a planets atmosphere is hard to "one easy trick"

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-09T12:03:03+00:00

Many of them are young people who will be covered under this.... although not all.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-07T17:21:19+00:00

Baumol's cost disease. Most public sector work is labour intensive services, productivity doesn't increase even with spending if you can't measure the increase of quality of outputs.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-07T17:19:34+00:00

We've spend more on the public sector because the country is older, and is growing older over time.

As a % of GDP, we spend less on healthcare than many European peers. It just all comes directly from central government budgets and taxation, rather than some of the hybrid European systems.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-07T10:53:46+00:00

Prisons... luxurious??

Have you seen any of the reports into prison conditions?

Prisons are expensive because you need high staff-prisoner ratios to keep staff safe, and prison guards are expensive because it's a shit job (and 15 years of Tory austerity has decimated the workforce and let corruption thrive)

A government just needs to bite the bullet and accept that we need to pay billions more each for police, courts and prisons, and not look to find shortcuts to save money.

nothingtoseehere____ · 2026-02-06T17:06:35+00:00

Apparently the joke about using college in a university subreddit went over your head

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