‘Wouldn’t need one. It’s extremely difficult to get rid of employees in the UK. Conservatively, you’d need 6 months and records after records of “issues” with the follow up counciling.’
Really? I run two companies here in England and just fire people if they are breaking their contract or their work is poor. Never had a problem and never councilled them apart form warning them to not let the door hit them in the arse on the way out. I think you are confusing us with France or Germany, where what you say is true.
We have somewhere north of 400 employees in Slough. When we decided to consolidate some functions in the US, we had to file a notice of intent 6 months ahead of time. We also had a number of problem employees that took over a year to fire for bad performance.