Thought I’d way in with a post intended to indirectly counter the “OMG, America’s so messed up. I’m so lucky to live in insert country here” you occasionally see here.
I’m in the UK and just accepted a job offer in Germany for around +50% my current salary, with the first three months of rent paid for and money to cover relocation costs.
So the package is great (with the job market the way it is, please do get your CV out there if you haven’t already) – but what really struck me was the employment contract itself.
It wasn’t 12 pages of austere text explicitly outlining all of the very specific ways the company reserved the right to roger me with a rusty bread knife should it be convenient for their shareholders. It was around 4 pages of all very fair terms, written in regular English rather than muddying the waters with jargon and legalese.
I wanted to ask any Europeans here if that is standard for the EU? If so, my god, UK labour laws are crap – makes me wonder if Brexit was in part to remove the few protections we did have when we were under the EU…