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The EAT decision in Perkin v St. Georges NHS Trust, strengthens the right of employers to dismiss workers on the grounds of "Some Other Substantial Reason" (SOSR). This decision encourages employers to violate the basic British principles of fairness embodied in British employment and human rights law by discriminating freely, and by intimidating potential "whistleblowers" into silence, whilst citing the competent employee's "difficult" personality. Employers have been able to claim that a "breakdown in working relationships, “caused by" the employee renders a dismissal substantially fair, even where the dismissal has been ruled by a court to have been procedurally unfair (e.g. where the employer is a public body and has violated the employee’s rights under Human Rights Act of 1998). We therefore call for legislation that would remove the vague and easily abused “SOSR” basis for dismissal while retaining the right to dismiss an employee on the grounds of gross misconduct.

Current signatories

Howard Fredrics, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• David Kempster
• John Symons
• Stephanie Ray
• Dale Pickstock
• keith james ackermann
• Andrew Taylor
• Lori Fredrics
• Ian Perkin
• David Johnson
• Kenneth Perkin
• f bealby
• Rob Wills
• Chris Williams
• Elaine Butler
• Sushant Varma
• Jan Ooms
• Christine Green
• Dr Shreedhar Vaidya
• George Speller
• colin puckett
• Michelle Christian
• Patricia Gravell
• Jean Hooper
• Andrew Gilardi
• Tom Minogue
• Rachel Lupanko
• Gail Knox-Wilson
• Erika Johnson
• reginald alexander smith
• Jim Gull
• js holmes
• Stephen Johnson
• John Robson
• Simon Carr
• Vivian Weinstein
• Joan Mallon
• Graham Beavan
• Jeremy Bushell
• naomi robson
• Julie Bancroft
• Pam Ward
• John Stewart
• Jill Rhys Jones
• d
• mitch grayson
• John Partridge
• ChrisKing
• Jane Carroll
• Steven Mayer
• Hayley Barber
• Mark Godfrey
• Kelly Flynn
• Lin Johnson
• Mr. David Stewart
• Christopher Perkin
• Peter Hollamby
• samantha louise knight
• ian punter
• John Thickett
• CAROL HENSEY
• john harris
• Sandra Heyworth
• Peter Jones
• Eileen Francis
• Patricia Thornley
• Paul Smith
• Keith Perkin
• paul fitzgerald
• Ric Piper
• Stuart Dixon
• g darcy
• Gerald Vinten
• Peter Laxton
• Patricia Gowling
• sue melo
• Teresa Reynolds
• John Adams-Hughes
• Geraldine Allen-Manson
• Ross Brierley
• D P GOWLING
• Ock Carter
• Angus Stewart
• Dr R I (Bob) Tricker
• Jennifer McClelland
• Penny Owen
• Martin Willoughby
• Sharon Chapman
• Nicola Beer
• E.A.Carlisle
• Janice Perkin
• Paul Vertannes
• haydn john latham
• Patricia Telfer
• Dr Aubrey Blumsohn
• Alan Hopkinson
• Sebastian Wheeler
• Jonathan Swift
• Kelly Flynn
• Marion Motz
• Kevin Jones
• Bashar Lulua
• Lisa Monkhouse
• Stephen Jones
• Barry Phillips
• Ruth Hopkinson
• Paul Jeffcutt
• Colin Clarke
• Geoffrey Porter-Williams
• christine thomas
• Frank Hooton
• Michael Rosenbaum
• Philip Brown
• Sheila Porter-Williams
• Graham Bridge
• Verena Tschudin
• margaret mason
• Adam Nugent
• Judy shapter
• stephen bolsin
• Lorraine Allen
• Tom Real
• Paul Hawkins
• Jim barnes
• Colette Morgan
• John Marris
• Jess Mortimer
• John LOng
• Barry Coker
• christine cavell
• Lynne McGuinness
• Penelope (Penny) Bunn
• roger perry
• John Airey
• Wendy j McGregor
• Arthensia
• p coughlan
• scott bath
• G Hunjan
• Melody Boyce
• John McDonald
• Robert Boakes
• Colin Hanslip
• Ray Jones
• Nicholas Palmer
• keith hughes
• Freddie Calafato
• Elsie Gayle
• Mr Vinu Vaghela
• Sue Pritchard
• Terry Woodcraft
• diane bradbury-harris`
• Linda Church
• Gemma Thomas
• Lisa-Marie Whilton
• Tania Lake
• John Airey
• Kate Wynn
• Frazer Mountford
• neil lark
• kathleen White
• C. Esplin
• Cedric Tomas
• Catherine Harris
• Sue Ross
• Lynne Skivington
• Loreine Thomson
• Nicky Bayley
• Edith Glatter
• beatrice rogers
• Josie Herbert
• Harry Tuttle
• Mr P J C Redfarn
• rosie faulkner
• dave hemsley
• Joan McDaniel
• Jane Calveley
• Jane Riordan
• Tony Phillips
• Liz Walke
• dasvinder singh
• Lynne Wormley
• Erica Watson
• Robert Lee
• Lawrence Welch
• Diane Stevens
• John Jones
• Pamela Morris
• Frances Hook
• Anjula Gupta
• Julie Gallagher
• Paddy Howes
• Janet Mccarthy
• Dr. Ingrid Pearson
• K Langhorne
• elizabeth pike
• Andy Scally
• Ann Devleesschauwer
• Susan Blackwell
• Daniel Marcus Caldon
• Darren Anthony Pullen
• CHARLES FRIEL
• Deirdre O'Sullivan
• Ben Jones
• David Harris
• Emma Kaul
• Laurie Stras
• Dr Alan Harrison
• IAN JOHNSTON
• Iain Alexander Mungall
• Delia Lomax
• Morag Forbes
• Nick James
• Michael A Tarpey
• Peter Fletcher
• Terrence John Ratcliffe
• Malcolm Povey
• B D Najak
• Roberta Farr
• Tony Hodges
• Simon Barry
• anthony miller
• Mary Rawson
• P.Dwyer
• Karen Louth
• Sal Fiore
• Jane McGrath
• Adam Thomas
• Fiona Quint
• jason schofield
• David Lee
• Rita Grootendorst LGOWatch
• Neil Owen
• Lucy Shapcott
• John Scadden
• Eileen McAndrew
• Cllr Jackie Grunsell
• Also not to sack someone cos doesn't get on with colleagues/equally trivial reason
• David Pudney
• Mr N Beck
• Colin Price
• Dennis Jackson
• William Scot Walker
• Rupert Cheek
• Ieke van Stokkum
• claire king
• Rachel Newport
• M Harris
• Elaine Hannah
• Rachael Foden
• alan smith
• Damien Lyle-Stirling
• mary o' connell.
• vince murray
• Ian Vincent
• Dimitris Kaltsas
• J Woods
• PETER HOWARD
• Gary George
• Mrs Elloway
• Marina Yates
• Belen Carsi
• Martin Morton
• William Main-Ian
• Ramraj Balloo
• Rosemary Perry
• Jeremy Bushell
• Margaret Robinson
• James Robinson
• James D Robinson
• martina o callaghan
• Andy Horton
• rachel grogan
• SUE SHEARER
• Louise Bowen
• Ann Whaley