Clause Crafted

Logged Out Before Lunch You arrive at work on a Monday morning expecting another ordinary day. Instead, your inbox refuses to load. Your work laptop displays an access error. Internal messaging platforms no longer recognise your credentials. A few minutes later, a meeting invitation appears on your personal phone. Human Resources requests that you join an immediate meeting. Ten minutes later, your employment has ended. By lunchtime, you are walking out of the building carrying the belongings that, only an hour earlier, occupied your desk. For many employees, this scenario sounds alarming. Yet over the last few years, it has become increasingly familiar. From large-scale layoffs in the technology sector to restructuring exercises, cost-cutting initiatives, and disciplinary dismissals, stories of employees being locked out before they have had a chance to process what is happening have become increasingly common. The legal question that follows is deceptively simple:  Can...