12-09-2012, 05:40 PM
(12-09-2012, 02:48 PM)Duchess Wrote:
Vacation "do overs"? Wow. Dumb rule, so is the 24 months of severance pay. That's no way to do business.
Very dumb policies just begging to be exploited.
Imagine the number of people who falsely claim to have been sick during their vacations in order to get more paid vacation - bet it's a lot. Bet the number of people who purposely get fired so that they can then spend the next couple of years being paid to lounge and look for the next gig is high too.
Thanks for posting that info, user. Most of Europe's had really generous employee-oriented labor laws for at least 20 years. But, I had no idea that they'd gotten so extreme; almost certainly a contributing factor in Europe's economic struggles.
I agree with Kid - legitimate business owners in this day and age know what it takes to maintain good employees and that includes fairness and reasonable compensation. Labor laws are important to ensure that workers don't get exploited by seedy employers, but neither governments nor unions should have the power to strangle-hold businesses. In the end, it not only hurts businesses' profitability (and/or forces them to shut their doors or relocate), but also negatively impacts job growth - which hurts the whole of the employee pool in the region, imo.