Forum Archive Index - February 2004

[Gavin Treadgold <gav@rediguana.co.nz>]

> Giving workers the sack in the lead up to Christmas
> is probably no worse, all things considered,  than being
> sacked at any other time.

I think from both a public relations, and a personal perspective this is the
worst time of year to do it. It will place more stress on a worker and
family leading up to xmas - it's not like it is a stress free time of year,
not to mention the high credit card bills that come in in January that have
to be paid on one income or less now. And it plain and simple is bad PR to
do this at xmas time. Never is a good time, but perhaps they could have
waited till March, and used the excuse of the end of the financial year, and
not lumped a load of stress on workers at the most stressful time of the
year.

Cheers Gav



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