[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Pharos]

I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would
perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list.

[general comment]

Thanks,
Pharos

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ec
>
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