Sack leave voters first. So opines Terry Christian.
Terry Christian faces a Brexiteer backlash today after saying people who want to leave the EU ‘should be laid off first’ if the economy stalls because ‘that’s what they voted for’.
The Mancunian broadcaster, 58, who voted remain, claims that he knows of three businesses who have adopted that policy.
Mr Christian, who found fame presenting Channel 4’s The Word, claims that Brexiteers have argued that Britain will thrive after cutting ties with ties but could suffer some ‘short term pain’.
He claims that businesses who have to make staff redundant should start with Leave voters.
Mr Christian has also run a poll on the issue on his Twitter account where 46 per cent or respondents, the highest proportion of voters, agree with that businesses should ‘sack leave voters 1st’.
We have a secret ballot in this country. So how will an employer know what people voted. I certainly would not discuss such matters with an employer and if asked outright would remind them that this is nothing to do with them and that we have a secret ballot and they have no business asking. Besides which, there is a process for redundancy laid down in law.
Your employer should use a fair and objective way of selecting you for redundancy.
Commonly used methods are:
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last in, first out (employees with the shortest length of service are selected first)
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asking for volunteers (self-selection)
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disciplinary records
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staff appraisal markings, skills, qualifications and experience
Your employer can make you redundant without having to follow a selection process if your job no longer exists, for example if:
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your employer is closing down a whole operation in a company and making all the employees working in it redundant
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you’re the only employee in your part of the organisation
You will notice that “voted to leave the EU” is not included. Indeed, if we are to select people based upon their beliefs, this is deemed to be unfair dismissal. We can determine from this that Terry Christian is a twat.
When taken to task on the issue Terry Christian said: ‘I actually said it would never get past an HR department’ but says his point is a ‘moral one’.
No, it isn’t. Moron.
You know I gave this a lot of thought but I just couldn’t get any further than ‘Terry Christian was an ignorant and offensive prick 30 years ago and clearly he still is”
Clearly. And why would anyone want to work for him?
Leaving the EU could create a massive economic boom if it were not for the fact that our politicians weren’t so utterly useless. Europe’s economy is hampered by having a massive bureaucratic millstone around its neck. How difficult would it be to be competitive against them?
So, maybe we should sack the politicians first and the remainers second.
I remember when he was presenter of The Word, he was widely held to have the intellectual capacity of a housebrick.
Terry Christian always struck me as an obnoxious smug little git who would have been an ostracised school snitch
I believe I was correct
As on Tim N:
“they’re positively begging for a recession in order to validate project fear, and are almost disappointed to find their worst fears unfounded. There’s something seriously wrong in the head of UK’s elites, and I’m not sure there’s any fixing them.”
but right at the beginning:
One of those statements must be wrong, unless Mr Christian knows of businesses that are breaking the law.
I would suspect the latter. I very much doubt businesses are taking the risk of breaking the law and how would they know what people have voted?
Terry Christian! Is he still around?
I wasn’t even aware of him. Had to look him up. So clearly well known to me 😀
“We can determine from this that Terry Christian is a twat”
Some of us already knew that all the way back to the 90s….
Isn’t this the bloke with the annoying nasal whine in his voice, who persuaded people to eat public hair sandwiches on camera? If so, we’re obviously going to take his political views seriously, just like we do that, multi-millionaire, potato crisp salesman.