Can’t the company just say “the sun rose in the East today, so we decided to fire you”
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> Can’t the company just say “the sun rose in the East today, so we decided to fire you”
They sure can. The issue occurs when they don’t fire everyone else.
In general it’s expensive to fire employees, since you either have to pay to train their replacements or not replace them and burn out your remaining workforce picking up their duties. Rational companies don’t like to do it without good reason. It’s also *illegal* to fire employees for certain reasons. Judges know both of these things, so if you say you fired somebody because the sun came up but didn’t fire anyone else for the same reason, they know you are lying to them and they start to wonder if maybe the *actual* reason you fired your employee was one of the reasons you aren’t allowed to.
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