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Some countries have laws requiring notice and time for a performance improvement period, before final termination of employment.

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Yes, in Switzerland, for instance, a company is required to offer "job relocation" services for employees that have been working for the company for some years (I'm not sure how many exactly). These services (re-teach how to write a CV, how to prepare yourself for an interview, etc.) cost between 10K and 14K CHF per employee.

I'm in Australia and something like this seems very weird, you sometimes take for granted fair work laws till you see what happens in countries without them.

When I read about pip, I keep going back to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11299310

I think even if we had regulations and requirements like that in the US, it would quickly devolve into a charade. Basically, a six month pip would be the same as a six month notice with the option to fire you any time anyway.

Dumb law IMO. I like at-will employment. I would be pissed if my company was paying 14k on my behalf for something so unnecessary. I can budget my education much better than the government, thanks.

Why would you be pissed? No employee is going to be 'pissed' about something designed to benefit them and ease a layoff.

How can you budget your retraining if you get same-day notice and just 2 weeks severance?

Having six months to prepare for being fire sounds better then "bye tomorrow".

Well Basically every Commonwealth Countries and Countries inside EU, or to put it another way, the difference between the World and US.

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