Letting people go isn’t easy: “it’s hard enough letting people go who aren’t performing.

Some legitimate reasons for firing someone include:

Is it possible to fire an employee that did not work out?

Breaking up with someone is even worse than firing someone.

In contrast, he predicts that "a team like Mercedes will need to get rid of a few hundred people.

Well, he's fired some of the people who were hired.

There has to be a legitimate reason for firing someone.

If an employer can fire an employee for being gay, there is no reason in principle why he cannot fire someone for being an atheist, or black, or Jewish.

It is legal to get rid of somebody without any explanations.