alt Hacker NewsI have a cousin in Belgium who was laid off following some restructuring and her severance was 52 weeks. Not out of the goodness of the company's hearts, but mandated by law since they gave no notice and she had accrued seniority. US labor laws are a joke in comparison.
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Now compare your cousin’s yearly salary in Belgium with the average salary of a US employee doing the same job.
This also a reason why starting a business in USA is usually better.
This is a tough problem because it’s not always great. There is a reason companies largely (not all!) think twice about innovation, hiring and building out new facilities in European countries and part of that are those labor laws. So you miss out on upside but maybe it evens out on average.
This is not me advocating for either side but it’s one of the reasons most startups exist in a country like the US.
>since they gave no notice
WHy wouldn't they do that? What type of notice ado you mean in this case?
And people wonder why there are zero companies in europe competing with american ones in the tech sector...
I'm sure that level of overhead has nothing to do with the reason Belgian incomes, standards of living, and business outcomes are worse.