According to another comment and the article they cite, it might actually be grounds for a suit in the US too, if the would-be-employee incurs damage for actions taken in reasonable reliance on getting that promised job. I imagine if they quit their old job or rejected other offers because they expected the would-be-employer to honour its promise, that might count as damages.
Whether it’s worth suing is a different question, of course.
Wild that it’s from the pocket of the employee though, here it is usually a government department that handle most legal cases Vs corporate, with that private individuals only have to do it themselves in exceptional cases.
Wild that it’s from the pocket of the employee though
It’s a repeating pattern, really, like the legal equivalent to The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness: If you can’t front the price of asserting your rights, you’ll get neither your rights not the money to assert them in the future.
Illegal in EU
Illegal in based land
If by which you mean “almost everyone except America and Canada”, yes
According to another comment and the article they cite, it might actually be grounds for a suit in the US too, if the would-be-employee incurs damage for actions taken in reasonable reliance on getting that promised job. I imagine if they quit their old job or rejected other offers because they expected the would-be-employer to honour its promise, that might count as damages.
Whether it’s worth suing is a different question, of course.
Wild that it’s from the pocket of the employee though, here it is usually a government department that handle most legal cases Vs corporate, with that private individuals only have to do it themselves in exceptional cases.
It’s a repeating pattern, really, like the legal equivalent to The Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness: If you can’t front the price of asserting your rights, you’ll get neither your rights not the money to assert them in the future.