Hello,
My partner was let go from his work today after a month and a half and has been told his work was not up to the standard of the previous employee. He had never been told this before and has had no meetings with anyone about his performance.
Are they allowed to get rid of him without notice? He said they basically called him into the office and said they were letting him go that day. I thought that he would have had to have had at least a weeks notice? They were very vague about the reasons of letting him go and didn’t explain them to him other than ‘clients were unhappy,’ but gave no proof or further information of how.
This same company has also lied to him in his interview saying he could work from home and work in a certain part of the company yet this all changed when he actually started. He wasn’t allowed to work from home which was a big factor in him taking the job as it’s quite far away.
I don’t think there is much that can be done but I’m curious about his rights about notice period and holiday pay etc?
Thank you :)