That's totally fair, I won't argue with that at all. The way he's doing this is very American "I will do whatever I want and I don't care about the consequences". The way he did it is absolutely going to trigger labour law violation lawsuits in various countries.
What I'm very interested in is the difference in actual severance and worker's "morale" for lack of a better word. I.e. is it actually a better deal in the end?
Since car manufacturers were mentioned elsewhere in the threads. These usually "play ball" and even when they wind stuff down they try to get people to leave on their own first, like retiring early and such and even creating "transfer companies" that help people re-skill. E.g. here an Opel plant shutdown in 2014: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/werksschliessu...
But "betriebsbedingte Kündigungen" are a thing. Apparently 73% of people that loose their jobs in Germany have that happen to them: https://karrierebibel.de/betriebsbedingte-kundigung/ Basically if "the job is no longer available" then they can kick you out. If Musk wasn't an "I can do whatever I want", he could use that. Of course being Germany there are rules about that, like having to fire people based on social considerations and he doesn't care about that at all and he'd have to keep the kind of people he wants out if he played by the rules: the 46yo father of 3 that works the 8 hours of his contract vs. the 23yo kid right out of university that may just submit to Elon's macho ways.
I bet this is the easiest for him too. Yeah it's gonna cost money for the lawyers to sort this all out after the fact. Meanwhile the people he wants out are gonna be out.
I agree he did what's easiest for him, and he will probably gonna get his way too - those who don't accept the (seemingly generous) severance package will be handled by HR/lawyers and be getting something less, probably.
I personally would have not "accepted" the severance package, out of fear of losing my rights due to "voluntary resigning".
The workers affected are also probably not like the typical Auto AG workers at all. They weren't working at twitter "for life", and can get a good job elsewhere fast.
It's true that there are ways of laying people off even in Germany, but the barriers can't simply be ignored. People who sued themselves back into a job they were terminated from are definitely a thing.
So, it doesn't matter whether Elon cares at all about social considerations or not - because the courts do.
What I'm very interested in is the difference in actual severance and worker's "morale" for lack of a better word. I.e. is it actually a better deal in the end?
Since car manufacturers were mentioned elsewhere in the threads. These usually "play ball" and even when they wind stuff down they try to get people to leave on their own first, like retiring early and such and even creating "transfer companies" that help people re-skill. E.g. here an Opel plant shutdown in 2014: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/werksschliessu...
But "betriebsbedingte Kündigungen" are a thing. Apparently 73% of people that loose their jobs in Germany have that happen to them: https://karrierebibel.de/betriebsbedingte-kundigung/ Basically if "the job is no longer available" then they can kick you out. If Musk wasn't an "I can do whatever I want", he could use that. Of course being Germany there are rules about that, like having to fire people based on social considerations and he doesn't care about that at all and he'd have to keep the kind of people he wants out if he played by the rules: the 46yo father of 3 that works the 8 hours of his contract vs. the 23yo kid right out of university that may just submit to Elon's macho ways.
I bet this is the easiest for him too. Yeah it's gonna cost money for the lawyers to sort this all out after the fact. Meanwhile the people he wants out are gonna be out.