6 months severance is very good compared to my last company who gave people a week per year of service when they had layoffs. They did have the direct manager personally deliver the news, but I'd take a slap across the face from the CEO for that 6 months if I was looking at a couple weeks.
In the past I got laid off with 6mo severance and it was legitimately one of the best things to ever happen to me - hated the job and paid off all my credit cards. Found another job in a month.
If it is about the European office as the article mentions, specifically the Netherlands office, 6 months severance is quite low as the layoff is due to an arbitrary reason (moving to AI) instead of a necessary reason (financial difficulties). I would sue them if it was me, get minimum a year pay as severance.
a) Because they just camnot fore you if you are performing ok for the given position. You need to have 3 years of bad reviews which needs to be meticulously proven by the employer that you didn't improve, even though they offered you training, different set of responsibilities etc etc. So in practice it's 3 years pay + legal costs to build up a file against you + possible legal costs of going to a court if the employee wishes to do so. Btw, the emploer has no case if they are trying to fire a group of people. The most practical and common ways to go around: go through a reorganization and make those people redundant, meaning you shut down the operations related to these operations, with the caveat that if you ever start those operations again first you need to ask the people you just fired of they want to take the job, 2- settle to a good severance package, ideally by nefotiating with the trade union or a lawyer representing the group. 6 months is on the very low end.
b) If they have permanent contracts, yes. It's rare to have permanent contracts at a burger joint though. They often have 0 hour contracts. It's no communism here in those sectors.
This is how things are set up. Companies open shop here because the salaries are 2-3x lower than the Silicon Valley, for exactly this reason (job security).
Can't say I would agree with you on the
everything, 'cuz I've experienced the malicious compliance from the people who doesn't perform ok except on the paper, but I appreciate your stance.
