"My experience as a causal was to get laid off one day before i was to be made a permenant. Is this a road we want to go down? Is it fair?"
I agree head, it is not fair, and it is not the way we wish to go, it is extremely unfair to offer a position and then back away. As an employer I would not do such a thing.
The very real problem we as employers face is that often the employee who can be exemplary in their performance and ethics while on probation can totally change once a permenent position is offered and in place. Much like a marriage, the partner who bends over backwards to please prior to the signing of the "papers", suddenly becomes a total opposite and causes nothing but misery afterward. This is why many employers will only offer casual emplyment because we are gunshy. Several times bitten, twice shy!
But that is no excuse for sacking someone on the verge of a permanent position, unless there was a very good reason.
