I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list.
[general comment] Thanks, Pharos On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/11/1 Anthony: >> >>> 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. > > > Employee protection an union rights are significantly weaker in the U.S. > than in most developed country. 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. > > Ec > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
