4 ms·
On the flip side, European countries had high unemployment even before the Coronavirus recession because employers were reluctant to take on new employees knowi
by commandlinefan 7y ago
On the flip side, European countries had high unemployment even before the Coronavirus recession because employers were reluctant to take on new employees knowing that it's much more difficult to get rid of bad ones there than here.
- fxtentacle 7y agoIn the US, there's the risk of lawsuits after you fire someone, which I guess creates the same resistance and hurdles to hiring as the added protection in the EU. Plus, my personal experience is that we easily found many OK candidates in the US but had trouble finding one in the EU. That either suggests that the EU has less skilled coders overall, or that the US has a higher rate of people who are unemployed or very unhappy with their current job.
- jaynetics 7y agoWell, Germany @ 3% unemployment vs US @ 3.5%? Seems it's somehow possible to employ people even with protections.
- gullyfur 7y ago> Germany @ 3% Did you cherry-pick that one? Spain @ 14.2%, Italy @9.7%, France @8.5%. Spain was actually at 26.2% back in March 2013. https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country:es:it:fr&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&hl=en&dl=en https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_...
- yokaze 7y agoIt doesn't invalidate the grandparents point. You can easily find dozens of countries with at will employment, and high unemployment. And I think, Spain has actually less stringent worker protection laws than Germany.
- Oletros 7y agoDifficult to get rid of an employee in Spain? No, not at all