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Does UK law allow for fraud as an actionable offense? In hindsight, circumstances are pretty clear that he was hired as a permanent employee but was from the get-go treated like a transient. This show premeditation and thus fraudulent hiring practices. His pay should be, at the least, that of a hired contractor/trouble shooter - at the least - since that is in fact how he was treated.
Few states in the USA have what are termed "wrongful dismissal" laws. When one is ill treated then one simply finds alternative descriptions of the events and pursues them. Unlike LA Law (I've never seen it but perhaps you are a devoted fan?) much of the legal systems actual caseload in based on expansion of an event to as many manifestations of being wrongs as possible.
Perhaps, however, fraud is legal in the UK?
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Fraud is a criminal offence, a serious one that is hard to prove and incredibly expensive to prosecute. So expensive and so hard to prove that the police rarely chase fraud cases unless the losses are 6 or 7 figures. If the police prosecuted companies for fraud because they dismissed an employee after a week the court system would be bankrupt overnight. Furthermore if, as an employer, you could be taken to court and jailed for up to 10 years because you dismissed an employee after a week then no-one would start a business ever.
In the UK the police will never entertain anything that could be covered by civil law, and employment matters are civil ones so you can forget all criminal charges. Yes we do have wrongful dismissal laws but again you need to have worked for two years to gain those protections. Employment law needs give and take, employers need to be able to dismiss employees, especially early in employment if they turn out to be unsuitable for the job (think a McDonalds employee who constantly phones in sick or does very little work when actually on the premises) so the laws allow them to do that. Unfortunately that also means that unscrupulous employers can take advantage of those laws too, but the system is how it is, no set of laws are perfect.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: no set of laws are perfect.
Amen to that - at least until I am running things.
The US has a number of agencies to protect employees who would otherwise be helplessly exploited. Admittedly, it can protect a bad employee - but that's taken into consideration by having a history and opportunity to correct the employee having been taken. Employers love to mess with benefits - even statutory ones - and these are civil cases.
Actually, my elder daughter was involved in this kind of law (one of two kids who turned to the dark side and became lawyers). My daughter-in-law is actually on the corporate side of these. I have a feeling, in the latter case, that is what makes her more liberal than I: she see's the sleaze in action. Perhaps to atone.
But, this is all US law - I cannot debate you on the whys and wherefores of the UK system.
Let's both, instead, be glad we don't live in France.
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Any chance you can follow up with an email about realising you forgot to do something extremely important when you fixed the controller board.
You know, sh** them up a bit.
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Was it a contract role or perm?
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Alledgely Perm! 
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You should check your contract to see if you have a notice period, if you do you should be paid for that period. However the fact that they said your skill set is no longer required makes me think they're actually making you (or your position to be more accurate) redundant, which is also sketchy af but not much you can do about it.
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As this was such a 'rush' they didn't send me a contract over the weekend as I was told they would, phone calls were made, I was working at the Global Development Center according to web site, in fact Two men in a shed! There was no one higher I could talk to. 
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glennPattonWork wrote: Two men in a shed! There was no one higher I could talk to.
Just an innocent question . . . does the shed look flammable?
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I like your thinking... 
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I don't see what hair styles have to do with this serious issue! 
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mutter, mutter, grumble, always one, isn't there 
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Inappropriate jokes: the older we get, the less we can resist them!
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exit(musefan.coat.get());
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Unless it's my coat that is leaving the room, you have some nasty coupling dependencies going on there
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Ahh get back to your Black Holes and Revelations!
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Yes of course. You are an intelligent man. I assumed it was your coat talking.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Hang in there mate - almost the same as you, retrenched end Feb, worked a contract with prospects March, end of March 'sorry we can't renew, clients vs work due to Covid-19' .. bleh
still looking for C#, DevOps ..
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Hey I'm not alone!, sadly that makes me feel better(?). It's just odd.
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That old saw "Misery loves company" is oh so true.
I'm thinking it was coined so that the sufferers could share the cost of a bottle?
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Quote: Non-programmer friendly
So, non-programmer friendly, but programmer non-friendly? 
Looking at FlowCode, it reminds me somewhat of DRAKON - Wikipedia[^]
Quote: DRAKON is an algorithmic visual programming and modeling language developed within the Buran space project following ergonomic design principles. The language provides a uniform way to represent flowcharts of any complexity that are easy to read and understand.
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Simply add it to the CV:
July 2020 - July 2020 @City
Project involved blah, blah.
Next item.
(Freelancing).
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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