2009/11/1 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
Yeah. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Here in the US, if a company doesn't mind its unemployment tax rate going up, they can do pretty much whatever they want.
In the UK, what, if anything, can a company do if they want to redefine a position altogether?
If you are genuinely redefining the position so the existing job will no longer exist then you can make the employee redundant (you have to pay at least the statutory redundancy pay, which depends on length of service). If you are just using it as an excuse to get rid of someone you don't like, you'll get sued. If you want to fire someone they have to have done something either really seriously wrong or have received lots of warnings and not improved.