Impending job loss: Caution, trap! How executives recognize their insidious degradation - and counteract it
If employers want to get rid of unwanted managers without having to pay high severance payments, they often resort to tricks. The most important warning signs and legal countermeasures.
German companies are using underhanded methods to remove senior staff without paying large severance packages. According to Christoph Abeln, a Berlin-based employment lawyer, tactics include suddenly stripping managers of their authority, staff, and budget, or making them look incompetent to encourage them to leave voluntarily. Abeln and Nils Schmidt, a lawyer and board member of the DFK, have identified common techniques used by employers to push out senior staff, including subtle and hidden forms of demotion that may even appear as promotions.
They have outlined these tactics and offered advice on how to counter them in Abeln's book "Vom Karriereknick zum Comeback".
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