With employment law weak and real jobs scarce, unscrupulous employers have no hesitation in abusing employees in the name of profit. It's often cheaper to bully out older employees, conveniently saving redundancy and other costs, and replace them with graduates on short-term contracts at half the price. Experience and knowledge of processes, procedures and customers has little value. To hide the follies and failures of management, reorganise. Better still, call in the Management Consultants .
Many employees find that the latest reorganisation is under way before the last one is completed.
But then quality and duty of care come from the heart, not from a manual. If you have to rely on ISO 9001 and IiP to tell you about quality and care, you're probably in the wrong job. The climate of greed and self-interest encouraged by the Thatcher years has reatuled in the pendulum swinging from unions having the upper hand to employers having the upper hand. Whilst few doubt that Mrs Thatcher started off on the right foot, she never stopped. The pendulum needs to stabilise with the interests of both employees and employers equal.