when terminations are unfair, why other folks dfont say anything?
obvious reason is that people are worried about their own jobs being on the line, if they identified with the person who was unjustly terminated from coming to work.
what are the ethics in your field when it comes to letting someone go at work?
share if you like.
best,
Dushwari
Re: unfair terminations at work places
our company has ethics dept where you can file a complain and they are obligated to keep your identity confidential ...
But I work for a very large corporation .. smaller companies may not have that ... but still if a person thinks that he wrongfuly terminated, he/she can sue the company
Re: unfair terminations at work places
interesting, TLK bhai. thanks for the in put. good to know such stipulations adn rights are in place and practiced at your company.
yet a lot goes on wrongfully in many work places.
obligatory deliverance of labor rights and unbreakable faireness laws are the best defense against unfair terminations at work.
labor depts at the city and state level can be sent a grievance letter as well.
the best thing to do is when one senses malicious motive to be set up for being terminated, immediately share the concern with immediate boss and then to her / his supervisor or ceo of the company.
on human level, sadly, very few people are conscintious of their greed to get a head by stomping on the livelihood of other people who are good hard working employees and that is the biggest threat to a not good and not hard working employee.
in this scenario, ethics indeed are a very precious commodity these days.
prayers that ethics be always observed by rightful people to protect undue damage to innocent people at work.
best,
Dushwari
Re: unfair terminations at work places
any other opinions or observations regarding unfair terminations?
Re: unfair terminations at work places
Typically, they first try to make your life tough at work, so you resign on your own rather then them terminating you. There is also the issue of workers' compensation claims, as that comes out of the employer's insurance.
In govt organizations, I've heard of many cases where not only the employee sued successfully for monetary compensation, he/she was also reinstated back.
Most companies treat employees as disposable commodities. I have heard of many cases where someone was fired after working for 10-15 years for an employer, and that person was replaced with an employee who would get half the salary of the experienced one.
I have some suggestions on how an employee should negotiate on the hiring contract, but I guess that will be a totally different topic.
Re: unfair terminations at work places
what is the definition of unfair termination here?
in some countries its real tough to let someone go, e.g. Germany.
in others its relatively easy.
But unless it is a situation of total staff reductions and layoffs there is a pretty documented process from discussions to verbal warnings to written warnings and then finally parting of ways.
Re: unfair terminations at work places
I know you are talking generalities, but lately there has been a case mentioned in the press where a Senior Airline Captain was fired from Cathay Pacific, who if it was not for some one happened to have a video camera that recorded his high speed fly by and even Airline officials from Cathay were onboard the Maiden Flight.
If this had not been posted on Youtube, he would never have been Fired from his $250,000/- yr Job.
Check it out:
So the question is whether this was justifieable termination?
I know no one will feel sorry for the highly paid Pilot!