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Remote work contractual trap (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by raicon@lemmy.world to c/germany@feddit.org

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I was applying for a senior backend engineer job in this european startup in the healthcare sector.

I passed through 4 rounds of 1 hour interviews. Everyone was telling me this company is remote first, nobody works at the office.

Contract type is as remote on linkedin.

The offer arrived, 80k euros. They are very reluctant in giving the contract to me so I can proceed with the bureaucracy regarding blue card and job change before 12 months.

The contract arrives and it's full of traps:

They can require work on weekends and holidays with no notice
There isn't a single mention to remote working on the contract
They can relocate me to any place with a 2 months notice
HR refused to add remote clause on the contract

To make it even worse, they were processing my emails through an undisclosed AI tool using chatgpt, in which I've sent my personal documents.

Avoid these traps like hellfire.

Company name is Recare.

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[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

Consult a lawyer.

If anything, using AI to process sensitive data w/ notice is a severe breach of data privacy laws. You can get a few hundred euros easily for that alone. The other things depend on how deep your contractual involvement with them is.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 week ago

I'm not entirely sure, but requiring holiday work should be illegal in Germany unless some very strict conditions are met.