[Cyclefrance]

Crazy world - the authorities want businesses to help bring wrong-doers back into the community, and if this is the reward they get, then it's hardly going to encourage other busineses to jump on board.

This is what you get when the compensation side of the legal industry (certainly this side seems more of an industry than a profession) is free to encourage anyone to make a claim when they feel grieved and to do so on a 'no win, no fee' basis.

Not sure how you stop this sort of thing happening - so long as 'victims' are encouraged to pursue whatever cases they feel they have then it isn't going to change. And from another pesrpective, I can hardly see the authorities stepping in offering some form of indemnity to employers to protect them from being sued if one of their probationers misbehaves while under their employment.

How often do we see the wrong party losing out. It's just like over here when an individual whistleblows on the government for screwing up. You never see the government take the hit - no ministers sacked or other penalty dished out on their side. No, it's just the whistleblower who in almost every case loses their job or is suspended, when they are the ones who should be rewarded for actually trying to improve a bad situation.