On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/10/31 Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org>: >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@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? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
