My daughter in her mid 30s has been just been sacked from her fairly senior role at her company. This came with no warning whatsoever. She had been doing well there (or so she thought), got on well with her colleagues and was planning strategy for the next financial year ahead.
Exact a month to the day before she reaches her two year anniversary of employment, she's called in and told they are letting her go. Some fluff about 'refreshing the team' and that is that.
The timing of this seems dodgy as hell to me. However, her notice period (one month) pushes her just over the two year mark - so does this count? I know that if she's gone over two years, they should have followed formal dismissal procedures, which they didn't.
She is yet to get to the bottom of why exactly they are letting her go. They have hired in someone senior to her (on a far bigger salary) so she suspects it might be to do with budgets. However, it wasn't the new colleague who was behind the sacking, it came from further up the chain from that.
DD is focused on finding a new job as quickly as possible, but this won't happen overnight and I think if they want her to leave quickly, without following proper procedure, they should be offering her some kind of severance package, not just paying her until the end of her notice period?