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what to know about your rights when an employer lets you go

  • Written by: Madeleine Stevens, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Liverpool John Moores University
what to know about your rights when an employer lets you goCompanies making redundancies should treat both dismissed employees and those that remain with compassion.Syda Productions/Shutterstock

One of the biggest rail strikes in 30 years has been playing out in recent weeks as 40,000 workers protest the threat of job cuts. Their employer, Network Rail, wants to lay off up to 1,800 people as it prepares to...

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