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   "bllbickel"  wrote in message   
   news:1159825929.786807.250460@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > Alison Hopkins wrote:   
   >> "bllbickel"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1159815173.717025.71010@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...   
   >> >   
   >> > Troy.Heagy@gmail.com wrote:   
   >> >> WB asked the actors to sign a "contract extension" after season 4 to   
   >> >> confirm they were still going to work for Babylon 5, after TNT   
   >> >> picked-up season 5.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> All the actors signed it.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Claudia Christian (ivanova) did not sign it.  In other words, she   
   >> >> resigned as an employee of Babylonian Productions/WB.  Colloquially   
   >> >> referred to as "quitting" a job.   
   >> >> .   
   >> >>   
   >> >> I don't know how, given those facts, anyone could say Claudia did not   
   >> >> quit?  It defies all logic.   
   >> >   
   >> > Actually, refusing to sign a contract extension is neither quitting not   
   >> > being fired. It's declining an offer of employment.   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> It can also be that the contract was unfair, of course.   
   >   
   > An offer of employment is an offer of employment. If you like the terms   
   > you agree, and if you don't like them you don't. Nobody's forcing you   
   > one way or the other. I don't see how "unfair" can even apply.   
   >   
      
   It can in UK  and European employment  law, but I suspect not in US law.   
   There have been a fair few cases around TUPE, for example, related to   
   contract extensions.   
      
   Ali   
      
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