Working Theory

by Michael Reed

Me?

I do employment law for the Free Representation Unit.

Email?

michael at workingtheory.co.uk

Elsewhere

105 archived posts…

12 April 2016

London Marathon tips

23 September 2015

Being positive about judicial diversity

22 September 2015

Lord Sumption on women

17 July 2015

Closing the gap

07 July 2015

I'm not a member of the Garrick, so I can't resign, but...

03 July 2015

Meanwhile, in parliament

24 June 2015

Valuing value

23 June 2015

It's spelt 'pro bono', not 'Abracadabra'

11 June 2015

Silence as profound as when the whale swallowed Jonah

12 May 2015

It's hard to graph days lost to strikes by decade

12 May 2015

Skating perilously close to Godwin's Law

12 May 2015

You can certainly see why we need urgent action to reduce the number of days lost to strikes

11 May 2015

Good old conservative scepticism and Human Rights

06 May 2015

Why we need judges to have discretion

05 May 2015

An alternative view on Canada Life v Reynolds

30 April 2015

Employment relationships are about power

16 April 2015

What will this lying liar lie about next?

15 April 2015

Is pro bono against the public interest?

13 April 2015

Signpost, but not foolishly

19 March 2015

What kind of country are we?

17 March 2015

Time to resolve

12 March 2015

FRU's Consultation Response on Postponements

17 February 2015

Unhappy Employment Judges

12 February 2015

Goodbye, Jeremy

05 February 2015

A plea for pleadings

03 February 2015

Standing in the river

20 January 2015

Why are employment rights important?

19 January 2015

Are Ministers worth talking to?

16 January 2015

Can't we just postpone making daft changes to the ET rules?

13 January 2015

Quick note on government access to personal data

13 January 2015

Looking up from the employment tribunal numbers

06 November 2014

Monthly ET Receipts by region

03 November 2014

Pro bono is a good thing, but it isn't legal aid

16 October 2014

Through a glass, darkly

26 September 2014

We've accidentally disproved the case for nominal fees

12 September 2014

Are they still vexed?

31 July 2014

Stella English is not a typical tribunal claimant

29 July 2014

Investigation in the face of injustice is no virtue

27 June 2014

Why is HMRC trying to make dissolved companies pay the NMW?

23 June 2014

Photocopier etiquette

13 June 2014

I can't feel shame, I've dissolved

12 June 2014

How not to correct mistakes

12 June 2014

Remember those vexing claimants?

12 June 2014

Quick thoughts on the new statistics

04 June 2014

We need to talk about Sarah

19 May 2014

A moderately amusing twitter contretemps

14 May 2014

The problem with references

11 April 2014

You spent £91,310.93 on employment lawyers?

26 March 2014

Books lawyers should read

18 March 2014

The fees escarpment

13 February 2014

Specialist tribunals: respect and pragmatism

15 January 2014

Our achievements?

27 November 2013

Zero-hours contracts, bad management and good behaviour

26 November 2013

A rose tinted view of zero-hours?

18 November 2013

Symbiotic Pro Bono

05 September 2013

The present now, will later be past

29 August 2013

FRU Volunteer Survey

26 August 2013

The Court of Appeal vs The Alien Threat

14 August 2013

ELA Briefing: Fee remission changes

01 August 2013

FRU / Outer Temple Pupillage

30 July 2013

Some predictions on fees

26 June 2013

Equal merit and the margin of error

17 May 2013

Should lawyers be interesting?

15 May 2013

Why FRU volunteers should do Social Security

09 May 2013

Skeletons, fleshy corpses and the Court of Appeal

08 May 2013

Immigration checks by landlords

19 April 2013

Scramble, scramble, scramble! Consultation incoming!

16 April 2013

Who's forcing you?

09 April 2013

Why do we sign COT3s?

18 March 2013

A Guide to FRU for pupillage applications

01 March 2013

Recruiting the Supremes

26 February 2013

Warnings and being on a slippery slope

20 February 2013

Thoughts on the BCAT

12 February 2013

Dear Michael...

06 February 2013

What does O'Brien mean for the judiciary?

05 February 2013

Accounting for early conciliation

25 January 2013

Toss the cap

18 January 2013

Early Conciliation, Early Thoughts

16 January 2013

Blogging Eweida — A new dawn

11 January 2013

Mba — Failing a sanity check

10 January 2013

Justifying Sunday working

13 December 2012

Volunteers and discrimination

13 December 2012

On gay marriage

20 November 2012

Marginalising, discriminating and treating people equally

19 November 2012

Home truths?

09 November 2012

What FRU does achieve

07 November 2012

Why FRU is irrelevant to access to justice

15 October 2012

The burden of proof in government consultations

21 September 2012

Costs are up, a little

16 August 2012

Blogging judged

16 July 2012

Comparing overriding objectives

11 July 2012

Sifting in the Employment Tribunal

26 June 2012

Why employers get dismissal wrong

25 June 2012

Protecting Conversations

13 June 2012

Stress and the small employer

08 June 2012

Should student pro bono be compulsory?

07 June 2012

Calling for Evidence

06 June 2012

Capping Compensation

01 May 2012

The thing about children

05 April 2012

The ethics of pushmi-pullyu

26 March 2012

Lexis Nexis' paragraph numbers

17 February 2012

Sitting Alone

13 January 2012

How much is the fee?

31 August 2011

Will the gender pay gap last for 98 years?

24 August 2011

Outstanding Equal Pay Claims