On 05/08/2012 06:47 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:

> The laws are very heavily in favor of the employers

I've noticed that.

My employer decided to shut two sites. The American one? 3pm local time, 
they say to everybody "pack up your stuff". And that's IT. The place is 
shut. They'll pay some contractor to come round and flog off any company 
assets which still have value, but as far as the staff are concerned, 
they turn up to work on Tuesday, and then suddenly they were unemployed.

In the UK, you can't do that. We have these pesky employee protection 
laws. Which means you can't just /shut/ the site, you have to pretend to 
think about it for 30 days. And /then/ you can just shut it.

(Unfortunately, the law doesn't force the employer to /really/ think 
about it. They only have to /pretend/ to reconsider...)

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