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This is illegal in Portugal. It's also illegal to fire someone based on the termination of a specific company role (assuming the company can do it, but this is
by celso 3y ago
This is illegal in Portugal. It's also illegal to fire someone based on the termination of a specific company role (assuming the company can do it, but this is another discussion) and then next hire someone else, contractor or not, for that same, or similar, role.
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoHows that working out for Portugal‘s economy?
- ttymck 3y agoIt would be very surprising if you believe labor protections are the root cause of Portugal's economic woes. Can you share how you drew that conclusion?
- andrei_says_ 3y agoNot the person you’re replying to but I’m the US anti-union propaganda’s talking points do include “bad for the economy”. Basically anything that hurts the top 0.1% is presented as bad for the economy. Which probably has a lot to do with how the economy is measured.
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoI wonder if they ever figure out how to stop the emigration from the capitalist hell-hole that is the US to the socialist paradise of Cuba (or pick any South American country if you prefer, most of them are socialist). Its a real problem!
- Daishiman 3y agoYou're doing the talking points of an 18 year-old who just read some libertarian pamphlet.
- deserialized 3y agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/americans-move-to-mexico-at-record-rate-up-85-from-prepandemic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/americans...
- Der_Einzige 3y agoIn general, Europeans would prefer to not work and strongly support social safety nets. They "work to live" while we "live to work" with our protestant work ethic. It's telling that America just gets richer and more powerful and Europe stagnates more and more. Reap what you sow europoors. America shows you the power of the Protestant work ethic.
- YourDadVPN 3y agoI hope this is a joke. It made me laugh, anyway.
- areyousure 3y agoIn case you're actually curious to learn about thoughts in this direction, see the paper "Did the crisis permanently scar the Portuguese labour market? Evidence from a Markov-switching Beveridge curve analysis" at https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp2043.en.pdf https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp2043.en.pdf From the introduction: > For many years, a key distinguishing feature of the Portuguese labour market has been its persistently high employment and relatively low unemployment, despite the high level of employment protection ... The crisis has now seemingly brought about an end to this striking feature of the Portuguese labour market: ... As a result, Portugal now [in 2017] has the third highest unemployment rate among OECD countries; ... And the findings: > The results show that the sharp outward shift in the Portuguese Beveridge curve was to a large extent driven by cyclical factors. However, it was compounded by some structural factors, namely, the relatively high level of employment protection together with the relatively high minimum wage ratio and the relatively generous unemployment benefit system.
- ttymck 3y agoThis is really interesting. If I understand correctly, it's drawing conclusions about the unemployment rate since the financial crisis. I'm under the impression that even before the financial crisis, Portugal was considered one of the "poorer" European economies, which is what I was getting at. But I see now the comment I was responding to may have been concerned with Portugal's _recovery_ since 2008.