[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Anthony]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/31 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at 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.

Yeah.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

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?