Yeah, here in the UK if you’ve worked somewhere for longer than three months then your employer has to have good cause to let you go. Thanks to the Tories, we don’t get full employee rights until two years, so if, after two years we’re made redundant, we can claim redundancy pay. But in the meantime, if you feel you’ve been treated unfairly you can claim unfair dismissal. You might have some success at getting some lost earnings, but you’ll have to represent yourself because there’s no hope of getting legal aid for that. However, the tribunals who hear the cases often tend to lean towards the employee. Or at least, that was the case when I went through it some years ago.

And if you are let go, then you can immediately claim unemployment benefits, which really aren’t great, but they do come with the added benefit of free prescriptions.