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> You get your notice time, and you get paid until your actual termination date, but you spend that time at home ("freigestellt"). Isn’t the US model of severa
by chrisseaton 4y ago
> You get your notice time, and you get paid until your actual termination date, but you spend that time at home ("freigestellt").
Isn’t the US model of severance pay better because you can take a new job while in your severance period.
- rob74 4y agoThere is that option too: if they want to get rid of you specifically (as opposed to just "reducing the headcount"), but the regulations say they can't legally get rid of you because they would e.g. have to get rid of people that were hired after you first, they can offer you an "Aufhebungsvertrag" ("termination/severance agreement") where you voluntarily agree to your employment being terminated in exchange for a (often quite sizable) sum of money.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> they would e.g. have to get rid of people that were hired after you first What’s the thinking behind this one? These rules are insane.
- MrBuddyCasino 4y ago> These rules are insane. They are. Its the result of shallow thinking, socialism and pure graft. People don't consider there are considerable downsides to these regulations, and simply think "protecting the workers" is good.
- chrisseaton 4y agoHow is ‘last in first out’ protecting workers?
- Tainnor 4y agoolder people tend to be less employable
- chrisseaton 4y agoBut it’s not ‘older’ it’s longer at the company. If they wanted older why not say that?
- Tainnor 4y agoWorker protection laws in Germany have a long history and were first established in the 19th century, not exactly an era associated with socialism.
- MrBuddyCasino 4y agoMarx & the industrial revolution would like a word with you.
- Tainnor 4y agoMarxism was a fringe ideology without any real political power before 1905, probably even before 1917.