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"In France, firing a printing plant employee is hugely expensive. The gent is paid €50,000 per year, works 32 hours per week and 164 days per year. Firing him
by dcreemer 16y ago
"In France, firing a printing plant employee is hugely expensive. The gent is paid €50,000 per year, works 32 hours per week and 164 days per year. Firing him costs about €466,000 – that’s a French government estimate..."
When I had the unpleasant task of considering layoffs at a French subsidiary we used to budget about 2x annual salary for severance expenses. The 9x number quoted in the article is amazing if true... In those circumstances I would work very hard to avoid making full-time hires.
- lionhearted 16y ago> In those circumstances I would work very hard to avoid making full-time hires. You'd think people would figure out that secondary effects exist sooner or later, but amazingly, they seem not to...
- dagw 16y agoActually France on the whole has figured it out. Contrary to the stereotype, France has relatively few fully unionised fields, and very low union membership. It is just a few fields, like printing, that still has archaic union regulation and rules still in effect.
- GFischer 16y agoYep... over here the awards for layoffs mount over time... a new employee can be fired with relatively low severance expenses, but someone with 2 years or more (like myself) is looking at 5 months' salary plus bonuses if he's fired. Besides de-incentivizing hires, it also means that switching jobs has a huge penalty (not having the "parachute") and in a small market it's tough to take the jump. (my current situation)