Comment on Google employee made redundant after reporting sexual harassment, court hears
XLE@piefed.social 1 day ago
Because “Google employee probably fired after Google acknowledges she was telling the truth about sexual harassment” isn’t quite as PC of a headline
BCsven@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Redundant is the British term for being laid off.
TehPers@beehaw.org 19 hours ago
It’s used outside of UK too. I’ve seen it used in the US, for example. Usually it’s just a corporate term that says “you’re fired” but without saying that. They use terms like these all the time to try not to take accountability for fucking someone’s life up.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Yes, but this is a BBC article and they don’t say laid off they say “made redundant”, its not a sanitizer term in UK, it is just the legal term everyone goes by for when you lose your job.