19-02-2013, 06:40 PM
Not a leg to stand on. As a new employee whilst in a probationary period they can let you go without any need to explain or any notice without any legal repercussions whatsoever. Depends on the company but a probationary period can be anything from three months to two years. I was once "let go" for being off for two weeks after my dad died, I'd been on the same job on the same site for a year and a half but the officially the company I had been working for for my first year and a half had "changed its name" or so we were told, actually they had ceased trading and set up a new company so without knowing it we'd all been fired and taken on again under a new company basically they did it for a tax break, and officially I'd only been in the job six weeks, I though I had em by the curlys for unfair dismissal due to bereavement, man did I get shafted but hey it was a lesson learnt!