[mschuster91]

    In what country can you not fire your own employees?

In Germany, you need strong reasons to fire an employee: intentionally causing accidents/damage, theft and other felonies related to your work (so, no firing your employee for drunk driving off the job) or failure to improve performance. The other thing is due to closing of the department or the location or the company going bankrupt, but these cases are often enough fought over in court and especially if the company is not bankrupt it's difficult to get someone fired.

[testvox]

Very interesting, honestly I prefer the American system where you can be fired at any time but if fired without cause you are entitled to continue receiving some portion of your paycheck from unemployment insurance.

[mschuster91]

The problem here is that you need to be able to afford the lawyer, the time for the court proceedings etc. in order to get said money.

Which means: those hit the most hard by "fire at will" are the poorest.

[testvox]

So if I am an employer in Germany and I fire an employee for misconduct but he claims I fired him for no reason how is the dispute resolved?