Sacked victims may get their jobs back

Saturday 8th March 2008, 12:00AM GMT.

EMPLOYERS could soon be forced to give unfairly sacked workers their jobs back.

Draft amendments out for consultation would give the Employment Tribunal the power to force bosses to re-employ workers if it finds that they have been unfairly dismissed.

The proposition, lodged by Social Security Minister Paul Routier, will also give the tribunal the power to reduce the award for unfair dismissal if it finds that the worker was partly to blame.

Senator Routier said that giving the tribunal power to get workers their jobs back was important in a small island such as Jersey. This was because an employee who was sacked from a specialist position in Jersey might not be able to find an alternative job in the Island.

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