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The severance package that those workers got was fought for by their workers' council (the institution that terrified Haan, another businessperson quoted in the
by briandon 14y ago
The severance package that those workers got was fought for by their workers' council (the institution that terrified Haan, another businessperson quoted in the same article).
Without the requirement that 49-worker-plus enterprises have worker councils, most employers would squash them if at all possible, and there would be no one to negotiate humane layoff terms for the people being jettisoned.
- wlievens 14y agoThat looks like a giant fault in employment law to me. I don't understand why a severance package should be something subject to negotiation. Write a law with a very simple function of years of service, pay and age and let that spit out a number. Done. No time and money wasted negotiating, employers and employees know what they're getting. When I was let off in 2009, I basically wasted 4 or 5 months at my old job waiting to get fired because the law required that much time for a collective termination. The outcome of that "negotiation" was not different than it was at day one, so I just don't get it.