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The wrong trousers
You wake up late, can’t find anything suitable to wear to work, grab whatever’s nearest and rush to work. Your boss takes one look at you in your jeans and fires you for breach of your company’s dress code – he says he’s told you before that you have to look the part and live up to the firm’s image and this is the final straw. You can’t believe you’ve been sacked for something so trivial – but what can you do about it?
Until October 2000, you might have had some legal protection against this kind of treatment, say in unfair dismissal – but it wasn’t guaranteed. There has never been a fundamental charter of human rights in the UK, unlike most other countries. The UK signed up to the European Convention of Human Rights back in the 1950s, but it was never written into English law. Only employees of public bodies could bring a claim in the European Court – and even then, only when they’d already been through all the UK courts (a time-consuming and expensive business). Since October, all that has changed. The Human Rights Act 1998 is now in force, translating all the rights and freedoms contained in the Convention into UK law.
So, how does that help you if you’re fired for wearing the wrong trousers? The Act contains various fundamental rights (each in a separate ‘Article’, or clause).
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