2009/11/1 Anthony:
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.
Employee protection an union rights are significantly weaker in the U.S.
than in most developed country. 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.
Ec
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