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, these tactics include sudden and unexplained changes to a manager's role, responsibilities, and resources, with the aim of forcing them to accept a termination agreement.
Abeln and Nils Schmidt, a lawyer and board member of the DFK, have identified common techniques used by employers to subtly push out senior staff, and offer advice on how to counter them. These methods can be difficult to spot, and may even appear as promotions or rewards at first glance.
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