[OJFord]

> As a european though, it is absolutely crazy to see you can do this on a day by day basis. Here you would have at least 1 month, more likely 3 month, prior notice to just being kicked out and having your accounts closed.

That's not true, there are minimum periods for which you must continue to pay the employee after notice their contract will be terminated, but I'd be surprised to learn of any country where it's illegal to prevent the employee having access to the building, confidential documents, etc.

Cf. 'gardening leave'.

[ghaff]

>be surprised to learn of any country where it's illegal to prevent the employee having access to the building, confidential documents, etc.

And I'd surprised if there were many countries where you couldn't prevent an employee who had been notified they were being let go from having access to systems, documents, etc.

[OJFord]

No I agree, that's exactly what I mean. You might still have to pay them, but if you don't want them to actually 'do work' for you that's fine. (It's your prerogative to have ever let them access any of that stuff to begin with, could've changed at any point during employment even if they still had a job.)

[ghaff]

Yup. I misread.

[mancerayder]

That's only for very senior management positions and highly paid specialists, I've never seen gardening leave for even middle management, much less an engineer.

[OJFord]

We don't have to debate that though to agree that it demonstrates it's clearly not illegal.