Comment by lolc
8 years ago
> He was fired.
No! It happened in the middle of a contract which wasn't terminated. There's no two ways of looking at it. A wrong termination date entered somewhere doesn't change the contract.
> Paying people not in your employ is fraud, [...]
The person was still employed. If anything in this story was fraud, it was the company stopping payment based on a wrong termination date. They even knew the date was wrong and still didn't pay. Clear-cut case!
Of course, if the parties later agree that the contract was in fact canceled at that point, that's how it is. Because parties can agree to cancel a contract. What a sucker though in this case.
>There's no two ways of looking at it. A wrong termination date entered somewhere doesn't change the contract.
It does seem like there are two ways of looking at it.
As I read the article, the employee's manager needed to renew his contract, which he failed to do. And this is a literal quote by OP from the article:
The wrong termination date wasn't entered, the correct, existing termination date wasn't updated in time. Those are two different scenarios.