01-27-2005, 12:32 AM
Archon_Wing,Jan 26 2005, 11:06 AM Wrote:Duh. If you own a company you are allowed to fire anyone you want, and make all kinds of policies , no matter how idiotic they are. :)
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I suggest that you jump ship (or country) and come over to the UK. You can't fire someone sumararily unless they do something which counts as gross misconduct (try getting 'being a smoker' to stand up as gross misconduct in an employment tribunal, assasinating the CEO maybe...). Or you can give two written and one verbal warning about conduct and then open up with the 'fired cannon', but since smoking can't be construed as misconduct they're gonna hit the same brick wall as above. The only other possibility would be the make them redundant, in which case the company can't employ someone else to do their job and would have to pay them out a hefty sum of money.
Are you seriously telling me that in the US employees don't have that sort of basic protection of their jobs?
Solutions in the US (as mentioned by Botly) A lawsuit, or a hostile takeover (by hostile takeover I mean 'mad rampage through company HQ with a semi-auto shotgun making sure to take out the entire board', although this course of action is not recommended :P )
-Bob