[Foundation-l] Recent firing?

Sat Oct 31 23:24:07 UTC 2009

2009/10/31 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at 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.