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Italy. Factually it is like that, the law was meant to protect against unfair dismissal but over the years it has become quite clear that if you work all the time you're meant to, and you don't intentionally harm the company (or its business) you're very unlikely to be fired. And if you are, you can sue the company and AFAIK most of the times (I have no direct experience though) you are likely to win.

This law has been modified and partially canceled in 2014-2015, but people that has been hired before that date still benefits of this law.

EDIT: Look at third page (numbered 70), second column half way, to get a better explanation. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http...

You should research European labor law.

Usually every employee has a trial period of 3 to 6 months during which you can fire them more or less at will. But once this trial period has passed, you're stuck with them for life (or bankruptcy/misbehaviour)