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sounds like a major difference, if a labour law only protects rich people, it is not really in the spirit of an actual "labour law"

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my point is rather badly explained, i mean to say that you need quite a lot of money on either continent to fight these type of battles.

no you dont, in Europe there is a lot of legal aid and support available to bring these to employment tribunals. you dont have to be rich to get justice over here (but as with everywhere it does help).

well free legal aid is worth what you pay for it in mine and other's experience. hopefully you won't have to rely on it someday. being rich certainly does help.

i disagree, free legal aid is very good, it just depends on your experience. i assume you are in the US and free legal aid there is the public defender where they are underfunded, overworked and probably not motivated by the system. In the UK where legal aid has been a part of the system for so long there is little difference between the quality of advice and representation. Some of the top firms for employment rights do both private and legal aid funded work and the same people work on both. Yes there are corporate law employment lawyers who dont do legal aid but I would bet dollars to donuts that most of them cut their teeth doing legal aid funed work and it is that work that gave them the experience and knowledge to move onto private paying work.

I'm in the EU. My experience has been with juniors or people who may be older in years but very new to the profession and they used the cover of free legal aid to fish for paying customers for their firms.

It might be lousy in the US but the limited amount of free legal care in the UK for non-criminal justice is very very good.

There are continuing restrictions on the availability of that legal aid though.

Not at all, in Europe this kind of justice is accessible to most people (and most likely you will win the costs as well). OK, I am speaking for Spain but I guess it is the same thing in all of the EU.

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