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by cjensen 4686 days ago
Which is why people HATE to hire in France: it's so hard to undo a bad hiring decision that no one will take a chance on a candidate who only "might" work out.

The right solution, in my opinion, is allow fire-at-will like we do in California, and have thorough unemployment benefits so that it's not worth making a fuss over.
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frenchman_in_ny 4686 days ago
Well, that and the fact that an employer in France pays something of the order of 42% of the employees salary [1] to the government for taxes.

The Zappos model [2] of $2,000 bonus for quitting one week in is great, I wish more places would use it.

[1] http://hrmagazine.be/fr/newsitem/la-france-au-top-des-cotisa...

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-09-16/why-zappos-of...

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perlgeek 4686 days ago
But that's what the trial period for, isn't it? If you can't figure out in 6 months (typical trial period in Germany) if he's a good fit, you have a problem anyway.
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