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Re:SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices by smrtinsert on Thursday July 06, 2017 @01:34PM (#14712182)
That says a lot. German labor laws protect their citizens strongly. I'm pretty sure they would always choose to get rid of other country staff first.
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Re:SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices by cagataygurturk on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:24PM (#14712632)
Not only citizens, laws protect all workers
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Re:SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices by aianus on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:00PM (#14714656)
More likely the German engineers cost half as much as the New York ones. No health insurance and much lower CoL and market rates.
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Re:SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices by scott_karana on Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:16PM (#14715536)
I think you're probably right about overall cost, but just a note: German employers do pay into the health insurance pools, too.
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Re:SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices by johnnyfaehell on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:56PM (#14714276)
Yes but operational reasons such as we can't afford to pay them falls under a fair reason. Only issue could be they would have to a certain amount of notice, so it could be more costly.
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