Archive for October, 2009
Your rights if you’re fired or made redundant
It happens. You wake up one morning to find out your company’s being acquired. Your first thought: will I be able to keep my job. You do have some legal rights. There’s differences between being fired (also called ‘dismissal’) and your position being made redundant. In most mergers or acquisitions, what’s happening is that many [...]
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In a related blog, I’ve commented on hostile deals. Why? There’s been a lot of press on this topic because of last month’s $19 billion unsolicited (hostile) offer for Cadbury by Kraft. Certainly, as I note in that blog, the deal has had so much attention not just because it’s hostile, but it’s also all [...]
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