Engineer sues Huawei for axing him 'because he's a Brit' A British software engineer is suing Chinese company Huawei for racial discrimination after they made him redundant but allegedly employed new Chinese staff in the Basingstoke office where he worked. Judeson Peter, 39, who had a £48,000-per-year job as a customer support engineer specialising in fibre optics for Huawei, was …
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"the Chinese staff are employed by a different branch of the group, a holding company located in China."
So?
If the imported staff doing the work that UK workers had been doing, not only has there been an injustice (those are expected), there has (afaik) been a breach of employment law.
Depending on the immigration/visa/employment status of the imported staff, there may have been a breach of immigration law too. Theresa may not be interested, but someone else might.
Not a native speaker of English, but I do believe that "to let someone go" implies that *the person in question* wished to leave, and was granted permission (or whatever).
In this case, he was "fired", "sacked", "given the boot", or in the worst case (if you are a manager) perhaps even "terminated" (which has an extra special ring if you're from Germany...)
But he was not "let go".
El Reg, don't succumb to Corpspeak, please...
"to let someone go" means they were made redundant. Redundancy is not the employee's fault.
"fired", "sacked", "given the boot", usually implies that it is the employee's fault.
The use of the term 'local' is interesting. Could that mean that the replacements have been sponsored to come to the UK by another branch of Huawei and then rehired by this firm as 'locals'?
Western nations should be looking at Singapore's model for skilled migration. Essentially, you may import management staff and temporary labourers, but anything in between has to be a native local. Or you can FO back to your own country.
Can't see his stance flying, bet they find out he once was on a bus with a BNP supporter and said good morning.
But it shines light on the rampant abuse.
Offshoring is one thing not much we can do about it but onshoring labour to replace locals on worse conditions to locals is just evil. All so the directors can have bigger bonuses.
...and have time to get along to see the tribunal case?
Personally I think cases should be televised locally. We have so many TV channels and nothing to show but repeats and I think the public humiliation of bad companies would make great TV.
However, with the unlimited compensation for discrimination the deviousness of employers (and bare faced cheek) seems to know no bounds.
If only my case against CRUK ended up on the Register site. I was sacked from that because I would not "fit in", and they stuck by that when they found out I had Asperger's. The whole thing could have been resolved with a five minute chat. Care to get in touch for a story El Reg?
>Huawei believes that the process followed was fair and in line with the approach other companies operating in the UK would take to restructuring.
Just because others do the same does not make it just nor fair. The test is rather simple, does his job still exist and is a person other than one previously employed directly by the company doing it? Yes to both and I would think Mr. Peter has a case.
>Today the firm employs 650 people in the UK, nearly double 2009 figures, of which 75 per cent of staff are recruited locally.
Recruited locally is not the same as recruiting locals.
of «just cause for dismissal» legislation in the UK ; i e, that when firing an employee, an employer must show that 1) either his or her job had become redundant and/or 2) he or she was grossly incompetent ? From what I understand, one of the UK's so-called «competitive advantages» vis à vis other European countries with much more stringent labour legislation is that employers can dismiss employees ad libitum. In that case, perhaps he should direct his complaint to Messrs Cameron and Osborne, who are well-known for putting the interests of employees first. (He could also write to the Lord President of the Council, the Rt Hon Mr Clegg, but I am given to understand that the latter no longer opens his mail.) Or does he mean that such privileges only accrue to persons of non-foreign (non-Chinese) origin, in which case he might be better advised to apply to the British National Party or the English Defence League....
Henri
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