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Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by triplea9 »

hootbootscoot wrote: post #3

Why on earth would anyone voluntarily quit, particularly as in Portugal you will be eligable for unemployment benefits from having been laid-off, vs quitting and not being eligable for the same. Call their bluff. (I live in Portugal, and some foolish bosses tried the same and were rebuffed. FWIW the gov't agreed to pay 60% of the workers benefits during the lockdown in an effort to stem layoffs and furloughs etc.)

Because they were threatened with their career potentially being ruined with a bad reference?

Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by lexa1979 »

docdeek wrote: post #4
hootbootscoot wrote: post #3

Why on earth would anyone voluntarily quit, particularly as in Portugal you will be eligable for unemployment benefits from having been laid-off, vs quitting and not being eligable for the same. Call their bluff. (I live in Portugal, and some foolish bosses tried the same and were rebuffed. FWIW the gov't agreed to pay 60% of the workers benefits during the lockdown in an effort to stem layoffs and furloughs etc.)

Is there a difference in Portugal between being laid off (for economic reasons) and being fired (for underperforming or misconduct)? I got the impression, perhaps mistaken, that the choice for some of the workers referenced in the article was get fired or take this meager deal.

Don't know for Portugal, but in Belgium "underperforming" is also an economic reason, you get the social security protection. Misconduct on the other hand gets you suspended from govt protection for some times.

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Post by riffraff »

hootbootscoot wrote: post #3

Why on earth would anyone voluntarily quit, particularly as in Portugal you will be eligable for unemployment benefits from having been laid-off, vs quitting and not being eligable for the same. Call their bluff. (I live in Portugal, and some foolish bosses tried the same and were rebuffed. FWIW the gov't agreed to pay 60% of the workers benefits during the lockdown in an effort to stem layoffs and furloughs etc.)

I don't think this is the case, but in some cases getting a severance package might be a good option: you get the money and can look for another job, while if you're on unemployment benefits you lose those as soon as you get hired again.

Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by ddon »

Revolut is really scary organization... used them for a year or so, and then one day locked my account... harassed me for 6 months, asking for all sorts of documents, which I provided them. then one day, they closed my account, and sent back 2K balance to random people who sent me money in the past. When contacted them via twitter, the blocked my the same day :)

Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by klmadfejno »

It sounds like these people were pressured into making a decision under tense circumstances (QUIT IN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES OR YOU GET NOTHING).

In the US this could probably qualify for nullification as it was made under duress. Don't know anything about Poland.

Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by galfarragem »

docdeek wrote: post #4
hootbootscoot wrote: post #3

Why on earth would anyone voluntarily quit, particularly as in Portugal you will be eligable for unemployment benefits from having been laid-off, vs quitting and not being eligable for the same. Call their bluff. (I live in Portugal, and some foolish bosses tried the same and were rebuffed. FWIW the gov't agreed to pay 60% of the workers benefits during the lockdown in an effort to stem layoffs and furloughs etc.)

Is there a difference in Portugal between being laid off (for economic reasons) and being fired (for underperforming or misconduct)? I got the impression, perhaps mistaken, that the choice for some of the workers referenced in the article was get fired or take this meager deal.

In Portugal being laid off means (aproximately) getting 2 thirds of your sallary (one third payed by state and one third payed by the employer) and hope to get back to work. Being fired means getting 80%(?) of your sallary and possibly a severance IF you have worked continuosly for at least 6 months AND have a dependent work contract (or equivalent). If you quit you get nothing.

Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by ValentineC »

triplea9 wrote: post #11
hootbootscoot wrote: post #3

Why on earth would anyone voluntarily quit, particularly as in Portugal you will be eligable for unemployment benefits from having been laid-off, vs quitting and not being eligable for the same. Call their bluff. (I live in Portugal, and some foolish bosses tried the same and were rebuffed. FWIW the gov't agreed to pay 60% of the workers benefits during the lockdown in an effort to stem layoffs and furloughs etc.)

Because they were threatened with their career potentially being ruined with a bad reference?

I never understood this. There's nothing preventing a previous employer from giving someone a bad reference if they were to voluntarily leave either.

Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by kkarpkkarp »

ddon wrote: post #14

Revolut is really scary organization... used them for a year or so, and then one day locked my account... harassed me for 6 months, asking for all sorts of documents, which I provided them. then one day, they closed my account, and sent back 2K balance to random people who sent me money in the past. When contacted them via twitter, the blocked my the same day :)

My story with revolut is one day, without warning before, when I opened the app, I'd seen info to update it before I do anything with my money. And in Google Store there was no newer release for my version of Android. The only way to complain is to do this in-app so I was not able to do even this. Basically, I was cut off my money, completely.

After two days I found on their site a form to cancel my account. Which was still not easy, before this they tried to keep me as a customer (suggesting for example to buy newer phone :) )

Re: Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

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Post by saos »

ddon wrote: post #14

Revolut is really scary organization... used them for a year or so, and then one day locked my account... harassed me for 6 months, asking for all sorts of documents, which I provided them. then one day, they closed my account, and sent back 2K balance to random people who sent me money in the past. When contacted them via twitter, the blocked my the same day :)

Yeah I knew they were a little farfetched when I saw their head of engineering job spec

https://web.archive.org/web/20200406205828/https://jobs.leve...

> School/university Olympic medal in competitions in physics, maths or programming

:/

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