I reckon this is correct in France: As an employer, if you attempt to fire someone, you will almost automtically end up in a trial and be condemned, whatever in

I reckon this is correct in France: As an employer, if you attempt to fire someone, you will almost automtically end up in a trial and be condemned, whatever indemnities you gave upfront. My father fired someone at age 55 (before it was forbidden to fire people >50yo) and paid cash for the difference between his unemployment benefits and his former salary until retirement. He landed at Prod'hommes (ombudsman) and lost. Even when your company is underweather (Bouygues telecom fired 900 people if I remember, Renault Trucks a few hundreds too), it's a long agony for employees who stay: If you quit, you lose all allowances for unemployment benefits and all severance package; If you stay it's 1-3 years until they sign your severance package, under a shitty ambiance where they'll search for proof that you're abandoning your job. France is the contry which consumes the most anti-depressant per inhabitant, by the way.