There have been some very interesting pieces in the legal and general press this week about the employment law rights of the staff of the demised News Of the World. Legal commentators have suggested not only that there may be obvious claims for unfair dismissal but also that employees who struggle to find new roles might claim that this is due to guilt by association and form a claim for breach of contract. Whilst unlikely to be a factor to an organisation as wealthy as News International, it seems that the company is making efforts already to re-engage some staff, although this in itself can cause employment law problems, as the criteria for re-engaging one person and not another may well be looked at in any Tribunal cases. Hopefully, the criteria to be adopted will not include hacking skills !