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by aestetix 891 days ago
It matters because this is about trust, transparency, and honesty. If you were in her position, would you want to know if your termination was due to something you did badly, or because of a general company policy?

I agree that being honest is not going to make everyone happy, but I don't understand why they can't at least give solid reasons.

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> I don't understand why they can't at least give solid reasons

Probably the liability around someone saying something not accurate, or something that could be construed as approaching, even indirectly, some protected class. They've already laid her off, she's not going to be singing their praises under any circumstances, anything they do at this point just increases their liability.

In a perfect world I'd love for people laid off or fired to get detailed reasons why so they can adjust course if necessary or at least know that it was nothing they did and just budgetary, but there are too many people who will want to argue the point in court that the company not only has no incentive to do it, they're heavily incentivized not to.

It sounds like the issue here is actually lawsuit culture. It's scary how laws that were designed to improve the lives of the working class actually wound up making life a lot worse.
I think you misspelled "gain votes" there. Laws that were designed to gain votes.
this is not about any of those things

this is about business and legalities about business