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0 pointsRinzler891y ago0 comments

Oh it's socialist all right when it comes to taxing everything that moves to pay for pensions and welfare. It's not socialist when it comes to employment laws and protections, there it's a capitalist paradise. In most non unionized business it's at will employment.

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wkat42421y ago

Wow, I had no idea we even had at will employment anywhere in Europe!

Like here in Spain if I'd get fired I would get a redundancy package for sure. And of course France has even better protections (we're all jealous of their 2 months holidays of course :P ).

I'm not sure if we're unionised though.

Thanks for letting me know. I was not really considering it as a place to live but I won't now - especially as I'm getting older.

gambiting1y ago

UK is completely 100% at will within the first 2 years of your employment, no redundancy package in that time either. In the first 2 years you can be let go without any reason, only after 2 years your employer has to make you redundant to let you go.

wkat42421y ago

Oh but that's like a trial period. We have that everywhere in the EU, just not that long :) Normally it's between 1 month and a year.

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wkat42421y ago

Wow, I had no idea we even had at will employment anywhere in Europe!

Like here in Spain if I'd get fired I would get a redundancy package for sure. And of course France has even better protections (we're all jealous of their 2 months holidays of course :P ).

I'm not sure if we're unionised though.

Thanks for letting me know. I was not really considering it as a place to live but I won't now - especially as I'm getting older.

gambiting1y ago

wkat42421y ago

Oh but that's like a trial period. We have that everywhere in the EU, just not that long :) Normally it's between 1 month and a year.

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