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While I get why that distinction sounds like it matters on a message board, for all of the HNers that will be in a position to hire and fire people: if you make
by patio11 8y ago
While I get why that distinction sounds like it matters on a message board, for all of the HNers that will be in a position to hire and fire people: if you make a practice of mentioning holidays when firing people, your lawyers will make a practice of settling lawsuits on unfavorable-to-you terms.
- akerl_ 8y agoI don’t disagree: it’s a dumb thing for an employer to say exactly because it leads to suits like this.
- doktrin 8y agoThis. If these emails were sent as described, the terminated employee can expect a tidy settlement with the quickness.
- dba7dba 8y agoMaybe the management/managers have been getting away with behaviors such as these for so long that they forgot sending such emails to terminated employee is a bad/expensive idea. Either way, whether religion is involved or not, discriminating or not, from what I've seen so far, Yelp needs to pay. Just so that it can be a lesson to others.