Comment by danpalmer
10 days ago
Can we change "firing" to "laying off", it's a big difference to perception and legal status. Plus it's literally the title of the article as per HN guidelines.
10 days ago
Can we change "firing" to "laying off", it's a big difference to perception and legal status. Plus it's literally the title of the article as per HN guidelines.
> Can we change "firing" to "laying off", it's a big difference to perception and legal status.
Firing does not mean what you thought probably.[1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733016
As someone replied to your other comment with, this is not correct. Firing does indeed refer to termination, which is different from redundancy. It's a colloquial term rather than a legal one, but firing is to termination as laying off is to redundancy.
These distinctions may mean less in countries without robust worker protections where the lines between the two might be blurred, but in a lot of the world these are quite distinct concepts.