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at 05:47 11 Apr 2024
Hi Clive
Is there a glitch in updating the above?
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Reply | That tackle by Clarke Salter
at 06:12 4 Apr 2024
Sell. He might blow up next season. Think what happened with Dickie and Dieng.
Think also what the proceeds might do with further Eze money and the current manager. |
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Reply | Times really have changed haven’t they.
at 21:56 10 Jan 2024
Clive, in his usual, thoughtful way, has just posted a piece about the culture of organisations being set by what they are prepared to tolerate. This includes the way in which their employees are allowed to behave (as you will recall, is it acceptable for Taylor Richards to vanish into the ether, for injured players to not show up and support their teammates and so on).
The point that your company will be looking at is whether it is acceptable for employees to make comments which, however well intentioned they are and funny they seem at the time, set the tone for the organisation and expose the employer to risk.
These days, when an employer is on the receiving end of a discrimination claim in an Employment Tribunal, they will be asked (whether in cross-examination or by the Tribunal) about their culture as an organisation: do they have current training in place which highlights what is acceptable, do they update it, do they have an equal opportunities policy and do they have a zero tolerance to discrimination. If they take these sorts of measures, they have a chance of being able to run the employer’s defence to a discrimination claim under the Equality Act 2010, s109(4): that is, that they have taken all reasonable steps to prevent it.
Nearly every week, there is a newspaper story published showing another example of workplace discrimination. Today’s example was Kalam v West Midlands Constabulary. A female former firearms officer was awarded £820,000 of compensation for the discriminatory conduct of her work colleagues which included, amongst other things, comments such as “just because you have tits does not mean you cannot do a press up”. That was probably thought to be motivational banter.
You will probably recall that Ricky Gervais lampooned the idiocy of his workplace creation, David Brent and his mate, Chris Finch, the Bantersaurus Rex, over 20 years ago now. Employment Tribunals do not tolerate workplace comments in the nature of banter and your employer will not either. There is too much at stake for them financially. As has been suggested to you by more than one poster, it would probably be better to be contrite rather than protest that they are being humourless. |
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Reply | Possible January signings.
at 23:29 19 Dec 2023
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There may also be a clause which requires the manager to take reasonable steps to seek alternative employment (mitigate their loss) (and, sometimes, there may not). Absent such a clause, there is, in any event, a common law obligation to mitigate
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To clarify, this applies after termination and is with regard to mitigation of loss. |
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Reply | Possible January signings.
at 17:00 19 Dec 2023
Not necessarily so. With players it is the purchase of the registration that is at issue and the payment for the registration is usually split in order to make the transaction happen, this being for the purposes of the Profit and Sustainability Rules.
With manager terminations, the manager has to be put in the position as if the contract had been performed in accordance with its terms.
If the contract is a fixed-term agreement, often a payment (or payments) is made to take the manager through to a particular future point in the remainder of the fixed term at full pay, and the rest at part pay. There may also be a clause which requires the manager to take reasonable steps to seek alternative employment (mitigate their loss) (and, sometimes, there may not). Absent such a clause, there is, in any event, a common law obligation to mitigate.
As an alternative, there may also be a clause which requires a one-off payment to be paid to the manager on termination by way of liquidated damages which might be less than the full value of the contract.
Further, the termination payment may be structured so that the former manager is paid on a month by month basis until they have sourced alternative employment (at which point an offset against new salary vs the old salary takes over and may wipe out further payments).
It all comes down to where the balance of power is in the negotiation of the contract. Where a manager is hired "from the street" or another role, the balance of power typically lies with the club (there will be many potential managers for one role and for the would be manager, the reason they are interviewing is the attraction of the job). However, where a manager's contract is extended (which is rare - most Championship managers are dismissed within a year), the balance of power tends to lie with the manager - zero mitigation clauses are often included then.
Accordingly, it comes down to the terms offered on a case by case basis. It might be the case that GA is being on a month by month basis until he obtains a new job. Alternatively, there might be an obligation to pay him out in full upon termination. |
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Reply | The snake going to sunderland
at 18:36 15 Dec 2023
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- Leon Balogun. If that guy shows up, turn off all the lights, close all the curtains, hunker down low and pretend Sunderland FC never even existed, until he f ucks off far enough away for it to be deemed safe for you all to come out again. Like planting your garden up with Japanese knot weed.
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Genius.
My wife asked what I was laughing at. |
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Reply | Napoleon.
at 07:38 7 Dec 2023
It's a tough one isn't it? Britannica (which is possibly better researched than a couole of film reviews) - https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Austerlitz also goes down the line of the French artillery shooting the ice at Satschan with "many" of the fugitives drowning.
Nobody really knows because the (variously) pond/ponds/lake was/were drained after the battle, there was no body count and it is not possible to tell how deep it was.
What the research does suggest is that the French did fire cannons on those retreating, that some were on iced water and that some drowned. |
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Reply | I'll try - a Potters match thread
at 09:04 29 Nov 2023
I went with a friend - first game since Swansea , when I left at halftime because it was so dire. The difference in performance last night was night and day. When we were 2-1 down, my friend (not a Rangers fan), said we were the only team in it.
As someone else has said, if Marti carries on with the same level of points returned, we will get our of this. |
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Reply | Macedonia v England
at 06:40 21 Nov 2023
This is another example of people seeing different things with players. I thought Lewis was pretty average and faded quite badly to the point where he was getting in the way of other England (albeit not as much as the ref with his new hairdo and love of the camera). |
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