Following on from the cruel news sent by the Blakes partnership
The employee sackings consisted of 23 lawyers and 66 support staff. The firm said in a statement:
‘All our staff were provided with career transition support and severance payments, and in some cases support is ongoing… While this has been a challenging process for everyone, we believe that the measures we have taken will ensure the business remains competitive with the right mix of skills and experience for the current environment.’
What the Blake Dawson partnership declined to comment on, and which the Firm Spy can now reveal, is the ‘advice’ it gave to the newly redundant workers to tell colleagues that they were going home ‘sick’ rather than reveal their job losses. A Blakes Firm Spy contributed the following comments about the sackings:
‘for several hours throughout the day, workers from around the office were leaving early to go home ‘sick’. I emailed a colleague in corporate to ask him if anything was happening up there and he said several lawyers had already gone home ‘sick’. It later came to light across the firm that none of the people who had gone home were actually sick – they had simply used that as a cover for the fact that they had been sacked. Apparently HR told them to do it.’
Do you believe that this HR advice was appropriate? Are you ‘sick’ of incompetent HR staff and heartless partners? Send us your news and views!
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