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Employees Fired By Text Message Get Compensation
from the from-taxpayers... dept
Back in June, we wrote about a UK company that had run out of money, and their advisors from PriceWaterhouseCoopers had decided that the most cost efficient way of letting the staff know was to send them all a text message on their phones telling them they had been fired and wouldn't be paid any money owed to them. Apparently, soon after that, the former head of the company was seen "sunning himself at his luxury villa in Spain." How nice. A small group of the fired employees have taken their claims against the company to an employment tribunal and won compensation, as the panel found that the staff had been "cynically manipulated". Of course, now, all the other employees are likely to file cases as well.
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Government is paying
Why should the company do the right thing if the government is the one that has to pay?
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Re: Government is paying
Sometimes I wonder what the American Judicial Industrail Complex would be like if it were held to similar standards.
...and the benefit of the entire exercise is to establish presicence that states clearly: you need to be completely insolvent before you can fire people by SMS message.
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