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Is the main reason they are motivated to blame performance so that they can avoid paying out disability (edit: unemployment) insurance?

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You get UI even if fired unless it was for misconduct. Being bad at your job is not misconduct.

Then what’s the point of taking a shot at someone barely out of training to say it was their fault?

Not admitting senior leaders screwed up the strategy and over-hired.

>disability insurance

I think you meant unemployment insurance?

If so, how would they achieve that. In Canada afaik you only pay EI while one’s employed. How would they have saved money with this?

random from google: https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/handling-unempl...

>Again, you are responsible for paying FUTA and SUTA tax for your employees. And when former employees file for unemployment benefits, you are (indirectly) the one footing the bill.

>Benefit payments are charged to your employer tax account, which results in increased state tax rates. The more unemployment claims the state approves, the more you contribute for unemployment taxes.

At least in California, businesses pay rates that are partially determined by the number of UI claims the company has paid out. You get a letter-based score that has many different tiers.

Startups without a long history end up in the worst category be default, iirc.

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