[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Ray Saintonge]

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

So just because you have a personal dislike for a comment you want to 
call it arguing. You're making far too big a deal of a casual response 
to Thomas.

Ec

> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>     
>>> 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 and union rights are significantly weaker in the U.S.
>> than in most developed countries. 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.
>>