Most likely because you could justify any firing to be "cost savings" and thus defeat the whole purpose of job stability.
Think about a tech company.. they could increase their staff by 25% for a year, using that team to advance products, meanwhile the new employees think they have a stable career on their hands.. but then the tech company is just like "nope, you are all fired". And they benefit into perpetuity for what the employees did while the employees are getting nothing more from that company and don't have a job.
Yes I'm oversimplifying, but that is part of what these laws are trying to avoid. It's unfair to the employees to have these mass hirings and mass firings with mass information asymmetry. In theory it would create more of a culture of "we hired you for the long term".
It is, but you cannot use it to fire a particular person. I mean, you get to choose who to fire, but if you need to hire somebody again for that position (because business is picking back up), you have to give the fired person the first option to come back.
That’s the most plausible reason I’ve heard so far tbh. I don’t know much about Europe but I’ve always been curious about the dismal salaries over there.
Most likely because you could justify any firing to be "cost savings" and thus defeat the whole purpose of job stability.
Think about a tech company.. they could increase their staff by 25% for a year, using that team to advance products, meanwhile the new employees think they have a stable career on their hands.. but then the tech company is just like "nope, you are all fired". And they benefit into perpetuity for what the employees did while the employees are getting nothing more from that company and don't have a job.
Yes I'm oversimplifying, but that is part of what these laws are trying to avoid. It's unfair to the employees to have these mass hirings and mass firings with mass information asymmetry. In theory it would create more of a culture of "we hired you for the long term".