[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

[Anthony]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/1 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/11/1 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
>>>> 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).
>>
>> Like, say, if you have two offices that combine into one big office?
>
> Yes, that would generally result in genuine redundancies.

And, of course, is exactly what the Wikimedia Foundation just did.