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I can only speak to the UK who remain a European (if not EU) country. My understanding having been through it in my first job, is in the UK you must make a given number of a specific role redundant. So it's not the people you're laying off but instead you say, we're making cuts to 4 sales positions. There is then a required consultation period where the people to be laid off are identified so there's always forewarning that cuts are happening but not to who.

So it's not firing but it's still perfectly possible to reduce headcount. What you can't do is the standard US move of firing everyone with zero notice by email.