The claim game

WORKING for decades on the shop floor of industry, I am familiar with the many scallywags and chancers who would put in claims for unfair dismissal, knowing full well the company would offer a cash settlement rather than go through a full employment tribunal case.

I therefore welcomed the Government changing the law in 2013 so claimants would have to pay a fee of £1,200 to start a case. This eliminated most of the dodgy claims.

But low and behold, our learned friends in the Supreme Court have decided to scrap the fee and put a millstone back around the necks of industry. Not one ounce of common sense went into this judgment.

NOBBY JOHNSTON, Hartlepool, Co. Durham. HOW many people have been dismissed because their employers knew they did not have the money to pursue them in a tribunal? Another example of profit before people.

When my grandson lost his job, I took up his case and, using the internet, took on the two solicitors who were acting for the employer.

Despite attempts to prevent me from gathering evidence from witnesses and telling companies not to answer my inquiries, we won the case, and my grandson was awarded a large sum in compensation.

ROY CARMAN, Dorking, Surrey.