Fire/rehire

[guardianangel]

Please ,please simon make redundant .

[daveyeff]

At the end of the day there isn't much point in worrying about it because there's only two reasons to float the idea.

1. It's false and just a scare tactic and therefore should be ignored.
2. It's genuine and there's absolutely nothing we can do to influence it so would be as well being ignored.

Constantly fretting, obsessing and terrifying the casual observer on these threads is pretty pointless. Lawyers can't even agree on the legalities of fire&rehire so I doubt a bunch of posties can.

Well personally for me woody, if they did plan to do this, i would be getting out of dodge. Im 64 in January and can do without all this shite. I know P&O only had 800 employees but Asda has a lot more and their contracts were changed in early 2021. Quite a few left but the ones who stayed had worse contracts ....loss of sick pay and paid breaks. This c*** thats running our business is one of that type of breed, and i wouldn't put owt past him.

[stevejm]

https://www.gov.uk/industrial-action-st ... ial-action

After 12 weeks, you can be dismissed if you take industrial action and your employer has tried to settle the dispute. For example, your employer may bring in advisers from Acas to help find a solution.

So that's why Royal Mail want to bring in ACAS. Not to try and resolve the dispute, but to have the excuse for getting rid of staff without having to pay out redundancy. I'm assuming they wouldn't have to pay out redundancy in these circumstances?

I'm not sure how ripping up all recent agreements with the Union could be construed as "tried to settle the dispute" - rather, the opposite. Bit like throwing petrol on the fire and then calling for help [ACAS] to put it out.