Pharos wrote:
I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list.
So just because you have a personal dislike for a comment you want to call it arguing. You're making far too big a deal of a casual response to Thomas.
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On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
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.
Employee protection and union rights are significantly weaker in the U.S. than in most developed countries. Some states are significantly worse than others. Protecting the rights of workers is on the slippery slope to socialism, and that would damage the ideological purity of free enterprise.
Employers in other countries need to be more creative in offering undesirables solutions that they can't refuse.