[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 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.

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