Firing someone
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Guess it didn't go so well http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29381980
cryptic.... did someone rescue him at the last minute? Are you now stuck with a complete **** on the team?
Probably a response to my slightly tasteless link.
Can you gather the staff into a room and ask everyone who has a job to stand up, when said person stands up, tell him/her to sit down?
Arrange a meeting with 1 too few chairs. If he sits on a chair ask him to swap over with the person standing and tell him the chairs are for people with a future in the company
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I guess there will be a few managers at my company who will be having hard discussions with some staff in the next 6-8 weeks. We were all informed yesterday that the company is aiming to make 20% of UK staff redundant, so around 90 people... as you can imagine the atmosphere at work today was interesting...
In my head there's a difference between "your role isn't required" and "you are not required".
I know and understand that the former is often used when the latter is meant. And we've closed down entire offices before as the business units attached are just not required.
And, yes, the
was for the link to the beheading story.
I guess I'd better suit up.
I know and understand that the former is often used when the latter is meant. And we've closed down entire offices before as the business units attached are just not required.
And, yes, the
was for the link to the beheading story.I guess I'd better suit up.
I think that's a bit risky - potentially some good people would start looking for and get new roles anyway, just in case... Should really announce it and immediately tell the people it will affect.... not announce it before they've even decided who it will affect.
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Are you hiring? What's the role? If they would have had to have taken a 40k pay cut to take a lesser role then put me down for an interview!
That's the law though, the company has to inform everyone if there is a redundancy consultation underway.
Nah... you can inform people who are actually affected... you can tell them to leave and pay them off with a lump sum too... in effect pay them to stay at home for the period + a bit extra so they agree with no fuss - banks do it all the time.
Telling people there will be redundancies then delaying the decision as to which roles are redundant risks good people leaving who were never in danger to begin with.
I guess some people actually have morals.
Yes.
Software Dev (ASP.Net MVC / C# / SQL Server).
Some knowledge of credit risk would be useful.
What is so moral about leaving a bunch of people in limo while dithering about trying to make a decision?
Rubbish, I worked in banking,made some redundant and was made redundant, same as everyone else they have to announce a review is underway, then have to go through a process of selection, and finally offer those selected the chance of internal transfers, after all of that the pay off happens
I believe there might be a rule that applies above a certain number but it happened to a friend of mine a few years ago. Basically a few people in fixed income sales at her bank got sent home at once - she apparently got an heads up from her manager the day before and that was it. The day it happened she went in in the morning, called into a meeting and basically offered the relevant notice(s) + statutory pay + an additional amount to leave without any fuss... and that was it, sent home with a decent-ish pay off. (While I'm sure there was more official detail to it, a token offer to find another role within the organisation or whatever other measures they need to take in order to be compliant I'm pretty sure they can, if they want to, simply pay people to go home and not come back in...).
edit - I believe it is greater than 20 employees when they have to give advanced warning/have a consultation period.
edit - I believe it is greater than 20 employees when they have to give advanced warning/have a consultation period.