No, en el reino unido no estamos como en USA en cuanto a proteccion del trabajador ni muchisimo menos
En USA todos los contratos son "Employment at will" lo que quiere decir que el empleador puede despedir al currela en cualquier momento sin dar motivos ni finiquito ni nada
Mira sentencia del tribunal supremo de California (estado comunista aparentemente)
"Labor Code section 2922 establishes the presumption that an employer may terminate its employees at will, for any or no reason. A fortiori, the employer may act peremptorily, arbitrarily, or inconsistently, without providing specific protections such as prior warning, fair procedures, objective evaluation, or preferential reassignment. Because the employment relationship is "fundamentally contractual" (Foley, supra, 47 Cal.3d 654, 696), limitations on these employer prerogatives are a matter of the parties' specific agreement, express or implied in fact. The mere existence of an employment relationship affords no expectation, protectible by law, that employment will continue, or will end only on certain conditions, unless the parties have actually adopted such terms. Thus if the employer's termination decisions, however arbitrary, do not breach such a substantive contract provision, they are not precluded by the covenant "
http://online.ceb.com/CalCases/C4/24C4t317.htm
Por no hablar de que en USA tienen 10 dias de vacaciones, no hay permiso de maternidad ni obligatoriedad de dar baja por enfermedad pagada
Para despedir a un currela en UK hay que hacer un "disciplinary" y meterlo en un "performance improvement plan"
