[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/11/1 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/11/1 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
>>> 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).
>
> Like, say, if you have two offices that combine into one big office?

Yes, that would generally result in genuine redundancies.