based how most tweets where writen, It would have been nice if those who where laid off Atleast knew before and had opportunities to share their socials with their colleagues to stay in contact.
Thats kinda really sad imho. Getting cut from your colleagues and having to leave without getting to say goodbye to people they worked together with for years.
This comes down to the labour laws being different. If someone tried to fire anyone in finland before at least 2 weeks notice (not to mention severance pay), they’d be taken to court.
In america it’s perfectly legal to make contracts that don’t require the employer to give any notice in advance if they want to fire you.
dayum My world view (swiss) is truly fake.
i mean i knew the us is crazy but people wanna live and work there under these conditions is beyond believable to me…
Well it sucks but what can you do.
They wouldn’t have been fired without pay.
If they were on contracts, it would have been paid up to the end
If they were staff, they’d of been paid an amount dependant on service length
No one’s who’s lost their job is being fired without any pay.
I never said they did.
I didn’t say anything about american severance pay since i had no knowlefge of those facts.
This is about prior warning to firing.
As far as i understand it’s legal to make contracts that don’t require a warning prior to the action.
In many countries worker’s unions have fought for worker’s rights for ages. Prior warning before firing being one of them and severance pay another (which even america seems to have gained before the country in general became very anti-union).
Plenty of other things too.
Yeah. You can pretty much remove any one from their position at any time.
But if you don’t have grounds for gross misconduct, you have to either pay up the contract, or pay an agree settlement.
This exercise would have cost MS a lot in the short term.
You cant do that in Germany. At the current company I work at (and its a very good and surprisingly friendly company), I heard the story of a guy, they wanted to get rid. He was an annoyance to everyone as it seems, anyway, he sued back and won.
So what they did was, they put him in a room on his own, disconnected from the company network and gave him absolute bulls*t jobs, like print the emails of his supperior, read them out loud and then shred them at the end of the day. Hilarious…
I mean getting fired is sh*t, but you wouldnt wanna be somewhere where you are not wanted either.
That will happen in the UK too. Unless someone commits some form of gross misconduct, you have to pay them to go away.