employment laws: can you be fired/asked to resign if others workers don’t want to work with you?

[lekbo]

This situation happened with my nephew. it was in a factory and employed by an agency from job centre . most of the work force were from one east european country and spoke their language. He found it hard to fit in. was there two days and supervisor called him into the office and was told the others find it hard working with him and he is upsetting the flow etc etc. The string implication was that they didn’t want him. He asked are yiu asking me to leave?? I’ll go’ he left.

what were his legal rights? could he have said ‘i won’t go unless you sack me’? That’s what i told him i would have done. But he said it was minimum wage agency and they would have just told him to go home and they will call him if they need him, and he won’t hear from th again

Under two years you can be sacked for any reason as long as it’s not due to a protected characteristic. Sounds like he dodged a bullet.

Nationality isn't a protected characteristic (race is), but he'd have a very hard time proving that regardless unless he had it on paper in black and white.

He should have got them to sack him if he's going to be claiming unemployment though.

You say he was employed by an agency so his rights rest with the agency not the company he was placed at

If he's agency the client can just tell the agency that he's Not Required Back (NRB). they don't have to give a reason, but obviously it's better for the relationship between client and agency to give feedback which I imagine won't reflect well on your nephew.

He hasn't done himself any favours by walking out, is he quite young?