[nalthis]

Skeptical that this would actually be illegal in Europe if all the details were provided.

I went through a similar thing at Amazon. Locked out of my laptop at 3 a.m. and emailed I was laid off. The key thing though is that my official end date was 90 days in the future. Legally, the 3 a.m. lock out was actually just a warning of impending layoffs. I got paid to “work from home” for 3 months after I returned my badge and laptop.

My understanding is that Europe may have longer wait periods, but most tech companies still essentially do the same thing there. Amazon’s laid off Berlin employees still get locked out at 3am and told to do nothing for months while legal does whatever it needs to do to get rid of them.

[lazyasciiart]

Funnily enough it is actually illegal in Europe and so our laid off German employees were reinstated by court order, several other countries as well. Amazon presumably ran into the same problem, or was smart enough to know they would: they give plenty of notice to European employees and follow local laws. https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestionsEU/comments/1qpni5...