Chris in London
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Re: Rooney and the legal implications
It seems to me that far from rags suing rooney, the opposite is true.
I think the lawyers call it ‘constructive dismissal’ – you make your employee’s life so miserable that his employment becomes untenable and, even though he leaves, he has effectively been sacked.
What has Shrek done (bagging a few grans and slappers aside) that required taggart to come out in public in a way which has exposed rooney to the most vile abuse from the rag faithful? Rooney did NOT say ‘I’m not going to honour the contract I’m on’, he said he wasn’t going to sign a new one. Why does that justify United’s management in vilifying him in public the way that they have done?
If he walked from the swamp, I think it would be a tough call to say that taggart hadn’t made his employment untenable.
It seems to me that far from rags suing rooney, the opposite is true.
I think the lawyers call it ‘constructive dismissal’ – you make your employee’s life so miserable that his employment becomes untenable and, even though he leaves, he has effectively been sacked.
What has Shrek done (bagging a few grans and slappers aside) that required taggart to come out in public in a way which has exposed rooney to the most vile abuse from the rag faithful? Rooney did NOT say ‘I’m not going to honour the contract I’m on’, he said he wasn’t going to sign a new one. Why does that justify United’s management in vilifying him in public the way that they have done?
If he walked from the swamp, I think it would be a tough call to say that taggart hadn’t made his employment untenable.