Nobody's suggesting not paying civil servants for the work they've done, though, only giving them less compensation for not giving them any more work to do.
Okay, fine, a contract which paid on delivery of stages, and had a penalty fee for cancelling part way through. Trying to cancel after the first stage without paying the penalty fee would still be a retroactive change of contract.
OK, an employment contract could be set up that way and/or perceived that way. But that's expecting quite a lot more than the basic you-do-the-work-and-we-pay-you stuff every contract contains.
I've never had an employment contract that gave me those kinds of rights, so I certainly wouldn't take it for granted that civil servants got them.
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I've never had an employment contract that gave me those kinds of rights, so I certainly wouldn't take it for granted that civil servants got them.