[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/11/1 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> 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?

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.