I was driving to a meeting last evening and was listening to the sports news. There was a story about how the Norwich City manager Paul Lambert had resigned and was going to join Aston Villa under some pretty dubious circumstances.
Essentially an employee (Lambert) has "quit" to join a competitor, despite that competitor being denied access to the employee by his employer (Norwich City) under the terms of their contract with the employee. So essentially the employee can leave their employer in the lurch and run off to join a competitor and suffer no consequences. However if the employer had tried to get rid of the employee, they would have had to have jumped through endless hoops, run up huge legal bills to make sure they did it right, and still end up in a Tribunal as it costs the employee nothing to make a complaint!
It made me think just how wrong employment law is, how heavily biased it is in favour of the employee and how Vince Cable is totally out of touch to resist reform of employment law.
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