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Getting laid off while on Vacation?!?!

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Steve Stifler

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Guys and/or Gals,

Have any of you been in a position where you went on what was supposed to be well deserved vacation, only to have maanagement at work lay you off?

I work at a company where they've laid a bunch of people recently due to the economy.

Yesterday, they laid off this girl while she was on a scheduled vacation overseas for the last three weeks.
She was supposed to return today.

I'm scheduled to go on my Christmas vacation for a coupla days next week.

Now I'm petrified to do so!

Has this happened to any of you's? Or do you know how I'm feeling?
Truly sux.


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Agreed Stiffmeister... How's your Mom? :D
 
They won't lay you off just because you went on vacation. There are labour laws in this country and the HR department will make sure that there is justification for layoffs to avoid a wrongful dismissal lawsuit.

You said they laid off a bunch of people recently. Usually, these things are timed all at once or you'll have inefficient staff scared out of their minds forever waiting for the next axe to fall. If the axe falls once, people can move on and avoid further stress. She probably just got caught by bad timing and they couldn't get in touch with her until she was back in the country. Her being on the list to downsize should have had nothing to do with her being on vacation.

Hey, it's a competitive world. If you prove to an organization that you have value and create value then you're are more or less safe unless by chance the entire company folds.
 
While firing can be highly personal ...

Steve Stifler said:
Guys and/or Gals,

Have any of you been in a position where you went on what was supposed to be well deserved vacation, only to have maanagement at work lay you off?

I work at a company where they've laid a bunch of people recently due to the economy.

Yesterday, they laid off this girl while she was on a scheduled vacation overseas for the last three weeks.
She was supposed to return today.

I'm scheduled to go on my Christmas vacation for a coupla days next week.

Now I'm petrified to do so!

Has this happened to any of you's? Or do you know how I'm feeling?
Truly sux.
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"Laying off a bunch of people" is a highly impersonal numbers game. Whether you are at work that day or not won't matter one way or the other if the axe is going to fall. Take your vacation and try not to worry.:o
 
I'm sorry, I thought you said "getting laid while on vacation". Don't think management times these things deliberately while you are on vacation. If it hapens it happens. Don't worry about it.
 
A layoff is not necessarily a termination. A layoff means you may be called back if there's work within a specified period of time. If that amount of time passes, the layoff becomes a termination.

If you're shown the door with no possibility of return, it's a termination.

There are no labour laws that prevent someone from being laid off or terminated while on vacation. The event can occur whenever the employer wants it to occur (assuming a non-unionized work environment). The only question (I repeat, the only question) is whether you are given the proper notice or pay-in-lieu of notice (and severance pay, if you qualify).

So lets say you have just started 2 weeks of paid vacation. On Day 1 the company decides to terminate you. Assuming the termination is not "for cause" (in other words, assuming you have done nothing wrong), the company must either give you notice of the impending termination (the length of notice depends on how long you're worked for the company; usually it's 1 week per year of service up to 8 weeks IIRC; it's in the Employment Standards Act). That notice can begin during your vacation time (provided they have a way of notifying you).

If the company wants to terminate you effective immediately, they simply pay out your notice period. If you have paid vacation time accrued, that also gets paid out. So your 2 weeks vacation becomes a permanent vacation (at least from that company).

All that being said, most employers would wait until you return from vacation or tell you beforehand.
 
Happened to me this year.

Took off for vacation, while on vacation I have this discussion with a friend about maybe buying a house later this year/early next, start looking anyway. Get back from vacation, no more job.

Talk about getting sucker punched.

Two months later, still unemployed.
 
Rockslinger said:
I'm sorry, I thought you said "getting laid while on vacation". Don't think management times these things deliberately while you are on vacation. If it hapens it happens. Don't worry about it.
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The guys says "I'm petrified " and you say "If it happens it happens. Don't worry about it."
You make a stupid pun about laid and laid off.
Why do you bother to post if that's all you can offer.
 
The logistics of laying off a large group of people are difficult to negotiate. They likely didin't want to do that to someone on vacation but its hard to avoid, especially at this time of year. Anyways, I don't think you need to be afraid of being laid off just because you go on vacation, just as Hornet said.
 
You need to be more afraid of who picks up the slack when you're gone. If they do a really good job, it can make the boss wonder...
 
relax

I highly doubt that you'd get laid off after X'mas. Maybe in Jan...but not now.
Anyway relax about being laid off ...it isn't the worst thing...i was laid off early this year. It gave me some time to think about life etc...claimed some EI while job hunting and now I have a job.

P.S. If you do get laid off i suggest not hobbying until you find a job. Although i did visit a SP when I got my first EI cheque! :D
 
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