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Sauce https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/foolproof-ways-to-get-laid-off-in-the-videogame-industry/

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[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 192 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It shouldn't be legal to report high earnings and lay off a large portion of your staff, that feels like something a poorly performing company would do

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That‘s how it is in Germany. You can only get laid off without a negotiated severance package, when the employer is in financial trouble. Even then you need start laying people off the employer needs to do it according to the social contract (e.g. single mothers last). Both is really hard to proof (in court) so usually everyone gets a severance package anyway. This means when you hear about big layoffs in Germany usually all of them get a severance package or agree to something else. These layoffs are not comparable to the USA. This is the shortened and positive descriptions of the process, but of course there are also (justifiable) downsides of doing it this way.

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

What would be some of the downsides? Just curious.

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Some examples

  • You need to pay a lot of lawyers on both sides
  • You can get fired for not having kids, being young or not married
  • People who are bad at their job are hard to lay off (this can include well payed managers)
  • Companies find other creative ways to lay you off (if you charge your phone at work, you are stealing electricity)

Come to Germany and see for yourself :)

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I would get dinged for all three on that second point.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 114 points 2 days ago

Wow there. We can't go around regulating things. What do you think we are COMMUNISTS?!?