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Europe makes it _costly_ to let an employee go. You can get rid of 20 people for next monday if you want to, you’ll just pay the due amount as defined in the c
by makeitdouble 4y ago
Europe makes it _costly_ to let an employee go.
You can get rid of 20 people for next monday if you want to, you’ll just pay the due amount as defined in the contract and the law. It’s also not some astronomical amount, worst case scenario I think it’s around 6 months of pay, which isn’t that far from what you’d pay for a non compete for instance.
PS: also unemployment is a complicated figure, it’s hard to tell how much any specific variable impacts it. Unemployment rate goes up and down while laws stay mostly the same, so singling out labor laws is mostly an opinion at this point.
- rgavuliak 4y agoLot of devs in Europe do contract work though. It's an employee disguised as a contractor so mostly as grey area, but it's becoming more common.
- makeitdouble 4y agoYes. Companies having that choice is also interesting in that they get to decide if it's worth to have people come and go, as a replaceable resource. For some company it totally works and they plan their staffing in 6 months spans (seen a small web agency basically having an "on" and "off" season, with half of the staff during the dead part), removing or adding people as they see fit. For others it's more difficult and they're pretty happy to have staff that can't just disappear within a month if they decide to go tour the Silk Road on a bike.
- kakoni 4y agoIn Finland its actually easy and cheap to do massive layoffs at once. But very difficult and costly to let single employee go.