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Can you be let go if...

  • 01-03-2009 4:28pm
    #1
    Bargain_Hound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 524 ✭✭✭


    Can you be let go based on your performance? With things getting harder and harder for employers I can see where they are coming from. I've been working with this company for 3 years and it is something they are "threatening" us with now for the first time.

    Can they legally just drop you off like that?


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  • #2
    taram
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,226 ✭✭✭taram


    I presume so. In my work if we don't meet certain targets based on percentages of sales, it's seen as not meeting our job descriptions and we'd get verbal warning, written etc etc. Businesses aren't paying wages for the fun of it, but to see results and profits.


  • #3
    AARRRGH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,382 ✭✭✭✭AARRRGH


    Of course they can get rid of you if your performance is not up to scratch.

    They need to follow some sort of process though, for example, warn you about your performance, then offer more training, followed by another warning, etc.


  • #4
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    They need to follow some sort of process though, for example, warn you about your performance, then offer more training, followed by another warning, etc.

    Absolutely correct.

    Or they can just make someone redundant, and use a random-number generator to choose who's going, it's just that the randomness is weighted towards poor performers!


  • #5
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    They need to follow some sort of process though, for example, warn you about your performance, then offer more training, followed by another warning, etc.
    Well, they're not legally required to have any kind of process for dealing with poor performance, but they'd have a very tough time winning an unfair dismissal case if they couldn't show that they attempted to help you improve your performance or otherwise bring it to your attention.

    It's one thing to fire someone for underperforming, it's another thing entirely to do it without warning.


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