[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.