• [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Unilaterally changing someone’s terms of employment is a layoff.

    How is that a question?

    When I start any job I sign a piece of paper, the company doesn’t get to pretend that didn’t happen, nor can they just change the terms without negotiation. It’s a contract. It binds both directions.

    Doing that should make them liable to legal suits.

    Now, I get that we have “at will” employment in most of this country that idolizes the US, but that does not mean you can magically void whatever contracts you want.

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      2 days ago

      Right, but what if remote work wasn’t in your employment contract? Like for just about everyone who started remote work during the pandemic.

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        1 day ago

        Same thing.

        During Covid I got a new contract which specified my primary workplace as work from home. That was agreeable so I signed it.