[Arkadir]

I would expect such an employee to be paid over €35k. This would place the minimum notice period at 3 months.

[corin_]

Entirely depends on which country within Europe, France for example has employment laws which are incredibly favorable to employees rather than employers.

[Arkadir]

The story happened in Belgium, and the specific duration in this case would be three months, unless there are some specific details that we are not aware of. I agree that it would have been different in another country.

[corin_]

Sorry, I thought you were writing in the context of the great-grandfather comment which was just about Europe vs. USA, my bad

[byroot]

That depends. New hires go through a probation period up to 4 months renewable (almost always renewed in practice) were you can be fired in a couple days without justification.

I find that pretty favorable to the employers.