Four Ways to Fire a Frenchman | 41 comments (41 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Most of these companies that complain are usually foreign companies that want to do it the same way it is done back home and ignore local law, and complain when, gasp, the locals dare want to apply local law.

Most big groups that are competent handle the law well enough. I know that GE (France) files every year for a "plan social", goes through all the procedures under French law, and then goes on to fire people as they care to under their global "six sigma" management practices (fire the worst 10% every year).

A large company that complains about being blocked by the law really is incompetent. I can understand small employers being overwhelmed, but big companies? Please.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Mar 29th, 2006 at 04:59:14 AM EST
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Most of these companies that complain are usually foreign companies that want to do it the same way it is done back home and ignore local law, and complain when, gasp, the locals dare want to apply local law.

Country of Origin Principle, anyone?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Mar 29th, 2006 at 05:01:22 AM EST
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Heh, whoever wrote that into the directive needs identifying and then tarring and feathering.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Wed Mar 29th, 2006 at 12:55:15 PM EST
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