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Getting laid off and getting fired are different things.
by protastus 4y ago
Getting laid off and getting fired are different things.
- seasox 4y agoThe results are the same: your company has one employee less and you have one employer less.
- onedognight 4y agoBig companies offer packages when laying people off, n weeks of full salary once you are gone with m weeks before of time to find a new role internally or externally. This does not happen when you are fired for cause.
- wdb 4y agoMost people have a notice period so that’s normal. If you are ‘lucky’ you have garden leave so you can’t work/need to go to the office during this period
- mclightning 4y agoThat was the most convoluted admission of ignorance.
- theginger 4y agoThe law (in many places) gives protection to workers being laid off which it doesn't give to those being fired for inadequate performance. But when a company can change a target value and huge number of people are fired instead of being laid off people need to push back.
- FooBarBizBazz 4y agoIs it any surprise, when the law creates an incentive like this for constructive dismissal, that constructive dismissal becomes the standard practice (even if it is supposed to be illegal)?
- Jataman606 4y agoDefinitely it is big difference. In first you get fired without any reason. In second your manager is told to find any reason to fire your.