Work & legalities
By anna82marie
@anna82marie (7)
February 19, 2007 2:11pm CST
If you were employed by a company and they put a 3 month probation period in place, then fired you just before that three months was up, is there any legal route you can take for unfair dismissal?
I may be naive, but i always thought that employers had to have a valid reason for firing an employee. Certainly in my company (even if you are in you probation period) you have to first be issued with a verbal warning and then a written warning before the employer can terminate your contract, even then he must have good grounds to do so.
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@michelledarcy (5220)
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19 Feb 07
In the UK there is nothing that you can do. If you are still within your first 3 months you can be told to leave and they don't have to give you any reason at all, and they can even increase the probabtion period before giving you a permanant contract if they aren't totally happy.
