Topslide6
I'm not sure quite what you mean about LIFO. It is in my contract, in black and white. Do you mean that I have an illegal contract? I'm not sure where the EU bit you refer to comes in, I understood that the only question about LIFO was how it squared up to age discrimination, which, last time I looked was UK, not European, law. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I agree that case law may not have been established, yet, but that is because of reluctance of the trade unions to enter a costly court case and reluctance of the employers to risk losing. Consequently negotiated mechanisms (where there are strong enough unions) are the current vogue. IMHO the badly written legislation needs to be tested in court in order to remove doubt and excuses.