layoff freeze laws have been a thing in many countries during COVID basically not only people took a 2 years paid vacation, they also could not be fired which

layoff freeze laws have been a thing in many countries during COVID basically not only people took a 2 years paid vacation, they also could not be fired which incentivized the more parasitic workers to work even less I know personally of a mailwoman working in Northern Italy for Italian Postal service (a public service) that went back to her home in Sicily and never showed up at work for 9 months because she could not be laid off. So my mother in law who's also almost blind didn't get her mail for many weeks. Nothing we could do about it. There were no consequences whatsoever.