2009/10/31 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
As I said above, he wouldn't be working a month's notice if he had been fired.
You correctly qualified that with "In my experience people don't usually" the first time.
In any case, the difference between "laid off" and "fired" is often quite blurry, and people certainly often get notice when being "laid off".
Perhaps this is a wrong-side-of-the-pond issue. In the UK if an employer calls it redundancy when actually they just want to replace you they would get sued for wrongful dismissal in an instant.