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Originally Posted by Patricia
Thanks to new employment laws which forbid discrimination against part-time employees, my university department has decided to close more than half of its teaching and sack people, in order to avoid losing money. I am likely to lose my job in the next six months. If I am very lucky I might make a sideways move and save part of the job. But my staff are not likely to be so fortunate. And I will have to work very hard and be extremely lucky to avoid redundancy.
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Oh no!
I'm confused about what kinds of laws we're talking about, though. Is this about providing benefits to part-time employees? You folks don't have employer-provided health insurance, but I suppose there are other employer-provided benefits? That kind of thing has happened in the US-- the laws get tighter, and employers get rid of employees, rather than follow the intent of the law.
