Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
I know countries where that would be illegal. It is the role that is redundant , is no longer required and cannot be refilled within a certain timeframe. You cannot make a position redundant and then promote someone to that position. If needing it refilled, then it wasnt redundant
For the most part, the US is "at-will" employment, so it would be legal as long as the person was not fired for a protected reason, it's legal. You're going to run into morale issues in leadership pretty fast if you do this though.
I would expect the C-suite may have a contract stipulating severance of some kind. When AA fired Scott Kirby, he got $13M and retained staff travel as severance.