>Tell that to the admins that just cut a beloved person without prior consultation or a continuity plan.

Let's think about the fact that this is possible for a company to do this to a full-time employee with several years experience next time an election comes up.

Unfortunately, not all of us get the luxury of advance notice on firings/layoffs

You're missing the part about how many things that said person was responsible for are floundering because the admins fired a person that was a single-point-of-failure without any backup plan.

It's like firing someone, then all of the sudden you realize that you need to hire a team of people to replace them, all while your site is down and your servers are on fire (and all of the MBAs are busy looking for someone else to blame so they don't get fired).

You seem to be making a statement about the law - I don't think anyone is suggesting that what Reddit has done here is against the law. Instead, what Reddit has done here strikes many people as rather stupid.

I don't think what Reddit did is illegal, I'm lamenting that it isn't. Independent of skillsets, people should get treated with a minimum of respect.

Even in countries where an employer has to give advance notice that just means they have to continue to pay the fired employee. That person can still be sent home if the employer prefers that over the employer continuing their job or training their replacements.