RE: Anglo American Platinum fired 12,000 striking miners
October 10, 2012 at 12:10 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2012 at 12:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 9, 2012 at 3:27 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I think that's a rather silly way to handle labor. It costs the company time and money to find people for various jobs. The whole point of having notice periods in contracts is so that someone can't come into work one day and say "I quit", leaving the company with a vacant (and possibly mission-critical) position that they need to quickly fill. With a notice period, a person can pass all their work to someone gradually (e.g. teach other employees how to use systems), or the company can use that time to find a replacement who can immediately take over when the worker finally leaves. Again, that should be in the contract from the beginning. If the company leaves it out, it is their own fault.Sounds like a failure of retention policy to me Tibs. These people do want to do business...right? If you have a "mission critical" employee I can hardly see how turning that employee into a captive is a very sensible way to go about things.......
(not that we haven't tried that before.........)
"Maximising profits", btw, somehow ends up being "malicious reasons" in the case of the individual in your responses....I had to mention that Tibs. Renegotiating a contract to maximize profits is generally regarded as "good business" where I'm from.
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