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I've heard in practice it's near impossible to fire badly performing employees in Germany as a result, even if you're a small company. Or firing a bad employee
by mahyarm 10y ago
I've heard in practice it's near impossible to fire badly performing employees in Germany as a result, even if you're a small company. Or firing a bad employee becomes very expensive which is even worse for small companies.
It's probably hindered a bunch of people from starting companies in the region and makes getting a job much harder because employers have to be extra careful.
- st3v3r 10y ago"It's probably hindered a bunch of people from starting companies in the region" I very much doubt it. If you were really wanting to start a company, you're not thinking, "I'd do this totally awesome thing! If only it wasn't so hard to fire people!"
- mahyarm 10y agoYou start a company with a few small people in germany somewhere. You quickly realize that because of investment money and running a company, that running it in germany isn't that great and you move the company to the USA. It happens more than you think.
- mschuster91 10y ago> I've heard in practice it's near impossible to fire badly performing employees in Germany as a result, even if you're a small company. Or firing a bad employee becomes very expensive which is even worse for small companies. By tradition, first 6 months of employment are on probation ("Probezeit"), with 2 weeks' notice possible on both sides. Companies can opt out of probation time, though, if they want.