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>This is why Israel, India, and parts of Eastern Europe like Romania, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine became popular for software outsourcing.

Not sure about the rest but it's definitely not easy to fire in Romania at all, and workers there get a lot of mandatory legal benefits like generous sick and parental leave. Unless you hire them B-2-B, which is quite common for high wage outsourcing jobs, then yeah.

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> hire them B-2-B, which is quite common for high wage outsourcing jobs

This is what my previous employer did

"hire B-2-B", a.k.a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_self-employment ?

No, you contract with another business to employ them on your behalf. Legal, common, and much more flexible.

mandatory legal benefits like generous sick and parental leave still apply

not if they're in a different country, and if they're employed as contractors

>you contract with another business to employ them

That another business is liable to pay them

They are still cheaper despite all that...

No, you set up your own legal entity(company) based on the financial/legal framework in your country, and bill your foreign employer for the work you do, but you're not an employee so you have no right to sick days, firing protection, etc. and have to do your own taxes.

Note that if the employer is found to be engaging in "disguised employment" then, in some jurisdictions such as the UK, they may be found liable for these things anyway plus penalties.

I know, some countries like UK, Germany, Austria, etc have laws to discourage this, but in Eastern Europe(Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, etc) this is totally legal.

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