The serious answer is: yes, but it requires courts, which are slow.
I'm curious how this works in other countries; if a company lets someone go inappropriately, is there faster recourse than the courts? Can you go to the police and have them escort you back in, or what?
The problem with even arriving there is that there are three ways of letting go of someone:
1) just letting them go for any reason, but it requires giving them minimum notice(usually at least a month, but in many places it's 3 months or even more). Companies get around this by just paying the employee their salary for the duration of the notice period and just telling them not to come in any more.
2) both sides can agree to terminate the contract immediately - this usually happens if the employee wants to go somewhere else, but they also have say a 3 month notice period - in that case sometimes you can agree with the company that you will leave immediately but also not receive your 3 month pay.
3) You can let someone go immediately without pay, but only due to gross misconduct - and ooh boy, you better have it very very well documented that it was gross misconduct(like, a recording of someone stealing is usually good enough).
So the entire "letting someone go inappropriately" thing is lessened because it's really hard to argue for in cases 1 and 2, and employers really try to avoid case no. 3 specifically because of the risk of being sued. Most companies would rather just pay you for the remaining time on your contract to let you go immediately than risk being sued.
In other countries, you can't "just let someone go". In Belgium there are CAO's [0], which loosely translates to: Collective Employment Agreements. Basically all employment agreements for a whole industry are more or less standardised. On one side there are the employers (of different companies) and the other side are the workers, which are represented by union leaders (perhaps also political representatives).
These agreements includes a lot of rules on how employment can be terminated. One example could be that an employer is only allowed to fire an employee for underperformance after given the employee 3 written reports over a period of 3 months and working on a plan to improve their performance. Only after that fails to produce results are you allowed to fire the employee. And you need to keep the documentation as it could be reviewed in court if the employee decides to fight it. (That doesn't happen often).
For this reason, often the employer will try to get the employee to quit. Or at least come to a mutual agreement to terminate the employment.
In Belgium, it's very hard to fire employees, and I think this is the same for several other European countries.
As a result, I haven't heard of many EU companies firing employees during these rough times. At least, not as often as US companies with "at-will employment".
The flip-side is that large companies will often have a glut of employees that aren't productive, but can't be fired.
If you need to get legal, it says “It can take a few weeks or a few months for an application to be processed, heard, and determined by a member. The length of the process will depend on things such as urgency of the application, whether parties have tried to resolve their problem at mediation, the availability of parties, representatives and the complexity of the case.”
I'm curious how this works in other countries; if a company lets someone go inappropriately, is there faster recourse than the courts? Can you go to the police and have them escort you back in, or what?