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Kasz216 on 29 January 2010
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ManusJustus said:
NJ5 said:
Kasz216 I don't think what you wrote in F is true... there are layoffs all the time (and I've lived in 3 different European countries already). Whether the companies are making money or not.

Its not true, he just made it up.  Its actually very difficult to fire people in America.  American companies face a lot of legal issues when firing people.  In many cases, its better to keep somebody than to fire them and face legal repercussions.  Layoffs are a different beast altogether, its very easy for American and European countries to lay people off because business is bad, and they have no worries about legal issues unless contracts are involved.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_ent_hir_fir_wor_dif_of_fir_ind-hiring-firing-workers-difficulty-index

Yeah... I'm guessing you didn't check the Source to that Nationmaster poll.  ALWAYS check the source.  You are reading the chart backwords.

http://www.doingbusiness.org/CustomQuery/Default.aspx?excel=false

 

The US diffculty scores are all 0's... aka the LOWEST and LEAST difficult. 

Well us and Australia anyway.

So you've found my proof for me.

 

Now France, Diffculty hiring... 67.  Difficulty firing.  40...  Cost of redundancy to the company in weeks of pay.  36.

Overall rating... like 158 or so.