Impending job loss: Beware, trap! How executives recognize their creeping degradation - and take countermeasures
When employers want to get rid of unwanted managers without having to pay high severance packages, they often resort to tricks. The most important warning signs and legal countermeasures.
Employers are using underhanded methods to remove senior staff without paying high severance fees. According to Christoph Abeln, a Berlin-based employment lawyer, companies are using tactics such as sudden withdrawal of authority, personnel, and budget to demotivate and demoralize managers, making them more likely 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 tactics can be difficult to spot, and may even appear as promotions or rewards at first glance.
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