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In Poland it is extremely hard to fire an individual with regular employment agreement. Lots of rules about overtime, work schedule, total working hours, vacat

In Poland it is extremely hard to fire an individual with regular employment agreement. Lots of rules about overtime, work schedule, total working hours, vacations, sick leaves, payment, notice period in case of mass layoff. Labour law is strong. But people are cheap - that's what attractive for international employers. Minimum wage, costs of living in Germany is higher than in Poland. What is a minimal wage in Germany is a decent wage for factory worker in Poland.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Poland != all of Eastern Europe. Yes, it's the same in Romania, on paper, there are loads of rules and regulations to protect the workers, but those rules are broken all the time by employers, especially in low paying jobs, because low paid employees don't have the time and money to take those employers to court, and there are next to no unions. And the labor laws are still weaker than what workers in for example France or Netherlands would get for the same job at the same company. Then there's environmental regulations which are laughable in Romania compared to what they are in Germany. To open a dirty tire factory or a mine in Germany you'd get protests up your ass meaning you'd never start building, while in Romania everything gets rubberstamped quickly if you grease the right wheels, meaning the cost of doing business is much lower regardless of wages, as the environmental costs also factor in the total cost of doing business somewhere, not just wages.
- ponector 3y ago
  Not all, but a huge beneficiary of outsourcing factories and services. Also in Poland labour law is covering mainly people on regular employment agreement. There are ways to get around and screw employees, but western factories and outsorcing vendors(like TCS, Capgemini) are not doing business that way.

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In Poland it is extremely hard to fire an individual with regular employment agreement. Lots of rules about overtime, work schedule, total working hours, vacat

by ponector 3y ago

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Poland != all of Eastern Europe. Yes, it's the same in Romania, on paper, there are loads of rules and regulations to protect the workers, but those rules are broken all the time by employers, especially in low paying jobs, because low paid employees don't have the time and money to take those employers to court, and there are next to no unions. And the labor laws are still weaker than what workers in for example France or Netherlands would get for the same job at the same company. Then there's environmental regulations which are laughable in Romania compared to what they are in Germany. To open a dirty tire factory or a mine in Germany you'd get protests up your ass meaning you'd never start building, while in Romania everything gets rubberstamped quickly if you grease the right wheels, meaning the cost of doing business is much lower regardless of wages, as the environmental costs also factor in the total cost of doing business somewhere, not just wages.
- ponector 3y ago
  Not all, but a huge beneficiary of outsourcing factories and services. Also in Poland labour law is covering mainly people on regular employment agreement. There are ways to get around and screw employees, but western factories and outsorcing vendors(like TCS, Capgemini) are not doing business that way.