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> there's no accepted corporate method of demoting an employee (in the US) Legally or culturally? Where I live (Europe), seems it's legally prohibited, sort
by cutemonster 2y ago
> there's no accepted corporate method of demoting an employee (in the US)
Legally or culturally?
Where I live (Europe), seems it's legally prohibited, sort of, to lower someone's salary, if the employee doesn't agree (which maybe is obvious, there's a job contract agreement after all). The company would need to fire and rehire the person at a lower salary, but firing people isn't easy.
- lazide 2y agoIt could be construed as constructive dismissal in the US - reduction in pay, or hours. So essentially the same problem.
- cutemonster 2y agoThanks, didn't know about that term. Now I found: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal > constructive dismissal ... generally ... grants [the employee] the right to pursue claims against the employer. > once agreed upon, wages are implicitly locked in by the common-law of contract as an essential term of the employment relationship. In this regard, it is a constructive dismissal if ... (That last section is about the UK, I suppose it's the same in the US.)