In Germany if you lose your job the government pays you 60% of your salary for up to a year.



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by Conscious-Quarter423

23 comments

  1. This is called unemployment benefit and it’s pretty much standard in most countries where there’s social security.

  4. Judging by her accent, I assume she’s American. There’s no freaking way she’s never heard of unemployment insurance.

  5. Out of topic, but why Germany total fertility rate is below the US?

    Something doesn’t add up. It can not always be all rainbow and sunshine

    Avoiding bad work, funny. Every work is bad, it’s what the money for

  6. Germany also pays a 19% VAT and their marginal income tax rate rises up to 42% by €69k

    Not many people in here would be OK with that level of taxation. We only want the benefits. We don’t want to pay for it.

    Edit: apparently this insurance is paid for by a separate 2.6% tax on income (half paid by employer and half be employee)

  7. Honest question: does Germany do this for only citizens? Does it do it for all residents residing in Germany?

  9. Cool. Now pay for your own defense. Help us help you against the fucking Russians.

  10. They don’t mention that you have to be actively looking for work for at least 15 hours per week. You also have to go to any job placement interviews the government system assigns to you. So it’s not like you can take a year long vacation with half pay from your old job.

  13. In Michigan I’ve heard that applying for unemployment is really tricky. They reject it for trivial reasons. Then the time it takes for you to actually receive unemployment benefits is around two months+ after applying, all the while you wonder if you have a completed application.

  14. And in Germany you make like 30% take home for the same job in America.

    And unemployment benefits are also a thing here. Many states its reasonable. Washington state max is 1004 a week. Lowest is 235 in Mississippi.

  15. Europe has some of the most developed economies and social safety nets in the history of the world. America is now a 3rd world country

  17. So we’re gonna ignore the negative economic pressures this causes? That would be the objective and appropriate approach to economic conversation. This sub is about dreaming of socialist systems without consequences.

  18. I witnessed this firsthand as a US-corporation security officer whose firm retained German employees:

    The standard “Labor Decree 4” or whatever-it-was-called guaranteed a long notice period, multi-month continued access to the office building [for purposes of next-job search], and a stripped-down computer with limited credentials [for same job-search purposes].

    More typically, the US parent corporation would pre-plan a “How much lump-sum payment to make this just go away” — the number, for a rank-and-file [non executive] employee, was almost always betw $50K and $90K. I remember the CEO saying in one such meeting “I’ll pay anything up to $100K. If it’s $100K, we’ll go to court.”

  19. In France, unemployment benefits (ARE) last up to 18–27 months depending on age, but can be cut by 25% if unemployment is low. You get around 57% of your previous gross salary, with degressivity after 6 months if your income was high. No login needed . it’s automatic if you worked at least 6 months.

  20. Taxpayer pays, not government. And when the taxpayer has no money the government borrows from the future to pay….

    It is sad that this sub is named “economy”….

  21. this must be why VW is opening so many factories in other countries. the unemployment taxes and penalties if you ever have to lay off workers are insanely high

  22. Thats why you have an emergency fund, in order to not rely on taxpayers when something bad happens…

  23. It’s an insurance. You pay for it with contributions, you don’t get it immediately, it’s not “the government”, but a public institution,…

    In other countries this is a government program, but not in Germany.

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