14th June 2013, 07:50 PM
Wax Wrote:As a matter of interest has there ever been an archaeologist who went down the industrial tribunal route ? if not why not considering the amount of employment malpractice that appears to go on? Are we such a small incestuous profession that we are all scared of being black listed?In 1991 I was the secretary of the Museum of London 'Prospect' branch and we took the employer to a tribunal on behalf of 243 archaeologists who had been sacked with insufficient notice and without adequate consultation. We won our case, at the time the largest protective award made by a UK tribunal, roughly £2000 per person. Don't know about being scared of blacklisting. Some of the 'victims' of that case are now in senior positions in archaeology undertakings scattered throughout UK and Europe......strangely I still get people coming up and thanking the branch for seeing that action through to conclusion, most recently a couple of months back in Pompey....
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