Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
by isostatic on Saturday January 12, 2019 @05:22AM
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In the UK, if your job is genuinely no longer needed, you can be made redundant, with mimimal pay off and notice (Typically 1 month notice and a minimum of 1 week per year redundancy)
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“Genuinely” being basically arbitrary. What you do is you move people from role X to Y then, shortly after, you say role Y is no longer needed.
Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce
by celticninja on Saturday January 12, 2019 @07:43AM
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Nope, not how it works.
Ehh, I've seen that happen in the UK, but only on the small scale. You cant do that if you're making 10% of the workforce redundant but if its one or two people you can. They moved them to a new role, gave them very little work to do and genuinely made them hate work, then after a year (I think they hoped they would have quit by then) the positions magically became redundant and they had a months notice.
Safe to say I left that place of my own accord not long after.
Same in Norway.
In periods of "low order" for things like shipping/mining a company may put the employees on leave that the government pay, but this is only temporary. It's a method to avoid hire/fire waves.