I read David Diment’s letter about making it easier to sack workers (last Tuesday’s Oxford Mail ViewPoints) in amazement that a person claiming to be so educated should take such a view as stated in his letter.

Though I must give him credit, he did take the toilet cleaning job.

I am sorry it came as such a shock to him that, for all his education, he still did not have the automatic right to one of the best jobs.

Perhaps he can see that, whatever job he is doing now, that somebody still has to do that job he didn’t like.

As for getting rid of people who he feels were sub-standard (and that was only in his opinion) there are ways of doing this, and there are rules on how to do it.

The rules are there to stop employers from sacking workers just because they want to give the job to their family or their friends or any other unfounded reason.

If an employer has a good reason, then they must prove it, then it would not need to go to an employment tribunal.

Maybe Mr Diment would like to go back to the time when a company or owner could hire and fire on a whim and there was no job security.

When he has the time, maybe he would like to go to some of the employment tribunals and see how employees are treated now. If it should ever come to pass that he should be sacked to make way for someone else, then I am sure he would be shouting loud and long that he had been dismissed unfairly and maybe he would be back cleaning the toilets.

If he would like this Government to change some laws regarding employment, perhaps they should start with themselves.

Some of the things they get away with, nobody in any other workplace could ever get away with.

DENIS NEWCOMBE, Springfield Oval, Witney