Soldato
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1) In the UK you can be sacked for any reason within two years. In Germany its six months.
2)In germany almost everyone has some sort of works council representing them. I only worked there for about a year employed by a German company and every month they would meet with the employer to discuss issues and my working conditions were regularly updated in this time.
I remember looking at the working conditions in Amazon UK vs Amazon DE over the xmas period last year. The UK ones were positively medieval, 50+ hours a week, compiulsory overtime. In Germany 37.5 hours a week was set.
3)No age related minimum wages. Everyone gets the same
4)In some industries wages are set by the works councils under collective agreements, for example fast food workers are covered by these and you don't get mcdonalds managers making 10p more than restaurant staff.
5) Jobseekers allowance is related to your salary
6) This is a bit controversal but the state pension makes the UK one look like a joke but you pay a lot for it so I am not sure if this is much of a positive.
7) the whole gig economy zero hours contract thing doesn’t exist either. Everyone knows exactly how much money they wil get every week.
8) everyone gets Sunday off except on a few circumstances(restaurants, cinemas etc) you can’t drive a truck, or deliver parcels.
Oh you can’t even mow your lawn unless you’re doing it silently
9) oh and sick pay, I was there during Covid and the whole thing was a joke in the U.K. when people were being asked to go off sick for a few quid per day. In germany it’s the whole pay.
I am sure there is more but these are the ones I thought of off the top of my head that I remember.
Im going to be hoest here. Im not particually proud of our workers rights especialy for low paid workers.
The sacking period is now 1 year thanks to Cameron and Clegg. I think if Clegg hadnt been there it would be lower.
You have to pay if you want to take a company to court for unfair dismissal. Brought in by the Tories.
There are many more but compared to most non EU countries we have it better than them. There is massive room for improvement.