I remember seeing something with it's name here I think, that does not matter, because obviously I did not find it relevant for me to remember. I am not finding it relevant to me now either, but that is not the point once again. It is the ridiculous way these stories are smarized, there is no context, there isn't even a link to an earlier story where the context could be derived. It is all circular and self referencing and the only reason I bothered to leave this comment is specifically because of this horrible story telling style that is so common here. I mean there is half a story that is half interesting somewhere in there, after all, it is a story of government oppression of the individual rights, but it is written in the most useless manner.
Putin and his very small hands... He wants 'the Internet encryption keys' in his small hands.
OK, so that is funny. But consider that in the last year Putin increased the police force by a large number in Russia and he signed a law that would require the country to build him his own 'national guard', everybody sees it the same way: he is scared of a coup and he wants his own army around him at all times. Him and his small hands, he is scared to be overthrown and as a KGB operative he knows that he can be overthrown and he decides he needs a couple hundred thousand body guards.
This move against encryption of all sorts is based on the same fear. He is scared of everything, scared he will not find out about a gathering of people somewhere and won't jail them in time before they make it to any news that still exists (and journalism is the most dangerous activity in that country, journalists murdered and beaten by the government). He is afraid to end up in the same way Quadaffi and Hussein ended up in. He should be scared, people are very tired of him. The majority of people in Russia wouldn't move a finger to get ridbof him, but it doesn't take a majority, only a few determined people and that is what he is afraid of most.
Needless to say there are other business interests that are government owned and that would love to have access to all communications that would prevent any competition against them.
Also FSB has their google like search servers installed at every ISP and every communications company in Russia, searching for stuff and recording what matches specific parameters, but the new law also imposes an obligation to all communications companoes to record all traffic and all communications for a minimum of 6 months.
The companies are saying this will cost them billions and will cause rate hikes, the government officials are replying that is nonsense, it will cost nothing and any rate hike because of it would be a money grab. Right, because it costs nothing to record 6 months of internet traffic.
As to this requirement to the FSB to get all of the encryption keys, I wonder who Putin wants to fire 2 weeks from now, because it sounds like an old Russian fairy tale of a tsar telling his servant to go some place that cannot ne found and to get him something that does not exist and if he fails to deliver his head is coming off...
Sorry, who? What is Theranos? I do not want to google it, and will not click any google links for this one either, dont care, but why isn't there a single sentence with half a description on what this Theranos is and why the fucking government messing with it?
This isn't Iran, if you have a problem you protest peacefully or become active in politics yourself, you don't fucking assassinate people.
- I disagree. I think assassinating government officials makes perfect sense, they don't give a hoot about assassinating anybody and everybody if that's what it takes to stay in power. Starting wars, murdering thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands, millions, all of this is done by governments. Sure, sure, governments have support of their people, but that's the problem - the people are very often uninformed, unintelligent creatures that follow another 'charismatic' asshole down the drain. Sometimes that 'charismatic' asshole needs to be taken down to pull the people out of their idiocy. Sometimes the dear leader simply cannot be replaced by any other means (see North Korea for example).
As to the fucking collectivist governments, like the ones in USA, EU, those are the worst types of offenders where it comes to impossibility of getting rid of a completely fucked up situation.
I am against the very existence of the IRS, Federal reserve bank, FDIC, FHA, EPA, FCC, FBI, departments of all shapes and sizes, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, every form of welfare, every form of theft and redistribution.
These things cannot be eliminated because the people who are voting will always vote to take from others what they think is their entitlement. These things should not exist in the USA in the first place, not a single one of them is Constitutional, every one of them is usurpation of power. AFAIC the power is already such that it is way beyond the normal process, there is no way to abolish all of these institutions without a violent event. A violent event is coming, it will be brought upon by the crash of the US bonds and the dollar itself. The violence is coming and these institutions will be gone simply because the very foundation for them, the US dollar that is fake (defaulted upon back in 1971) is going to fail and the Fed will make sure it fails in the worst way possible.
We are alive on this planet today, not tomorrow necessarily, not 100 years from now but right now. We should not suffer any of this right now.
Why does it bug you? Did you really assume that USA was a nation of laws and not a nation of men? There are men and women like the Clintons, who are above the law. Then there are men (and possibly some women) like Irwin Schiff, who actually were severely punished for bringing up the real law.
There are other third party candidates there, some are horrendous Marxists basically, like Stein, whatever. You can vote what you really think rather than taking a part in this false choice.
Shit, write in Darth Vader if that's your real preference.
WTF are you talking about? Government absolutely spams people. Government is a bunch of politicians, each one with their own agenda, each one trying to make some money/name for himself. This has nothing to do with any so called 'public good' (there is no such thing anyway). These robocalls are illegal and now the government says: fuck you all, we are above the law. We will call you, promote our agenda, ask for money, threaten you into compliance, into voting a particular way, etc.etc.etc.
Tyranny of a collectivist government is worse than tyranny of a singular tyrant. A tyrant can be taken down, even killed. How do you kill the hydra that is a collectivist government?
Snapchat, a 25.8MB phone application, OK? Available in 20 languages! Images that can (supposedly) disappear in 10 seconds, delivering amazing 10 BILLION video views a day.
In May 2016, Snapchat raised $1.81 billion in equity offering
so the app whose main claim to fame was that your pictures (and video?) would disappear from the screen of the recipient has pivoted to the functionality of storing those pictures (like your good old camera app does already) so that they can be sent out again later?
OK, the innovation is staggering. I am sure this adds a few billions to the valuation...
Bond rates are zero or negative, yes, so you are saying: load up. That is right, that is why the *governments* pushed towards 0 or negative, so that you would load up.
You are also very right when you said: *right now*.
Here is where you are wrong: it is better to take on gigantic debt for a public project rather than let the economy restructure and get rid of debt. It *is* the government that pushed the interest rates down, not the markets. The markets will push interest rates up and this happens very unexpectedly, very quickly and violently. The government pushes a beach ball lower and lower under the water, when the ball slips out, it will jump that much higher because of it.
To ignore that and to say: load up, it is really low now, is to create an environment that will lead to a catastrophy of proportions that much greater once the government can no longer hold the rates at artificially low level and then the market realizes none of these debts can be repaid with actual productive output, only with more printing. Printing is defaulting, only production is debt repayment. So markets will push interest rates up to levels that all of a sudden will murder the fake economies based on debt that is unpayable.
From 0% to 22% interest rate in a very short time period, your trillions of debt.... Self destruction follows quickly.
I *agree*, it is the entire USA. Wait, is it the *entire* USA though? How many people were completely against invading foreign countries, bombing, etc.? I guess it's hard to say, those people have been silenced.
I do however remember seeing her votes and even seeing her cheering as Saddam's neck was broken in the hanging.
- oh? But I don't mind. Didn't she basically create that group by pressing for more and more bombings, wars, cheering for Saddam's murder, etc.? What goes around...
It was obvious that they would never indict her. She's too big to jail.
- true that. Maybe she needs to be broken up into a number of smaller Hillaries, each one just small enough that it can be jailed.
Comey added that while there is "evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information," they think that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case." The Verge reports:
- so while a crime was committed, no reasonable prosecutor would bring up such a case.
What Comey means by this is that no prosecutor in his right mind would attack Hillary regardless of what she does. She could kill a man on camera and no reasonable prosecutor would attack her, they would probably declare it a "victory for the women's movement".
Yeah yeah, funny, however if they keep working for you at that point, good for you. The maximum I had to trains somebody was 3 months. The guy never programmed before.
Firing him wasn't an excuse, he punched a co-worker. They had to fire him at that point.
- the society is sick when the system is set up in such a way that if a company doesn't fire somebody who punches somebody else, it is the company that gets screwed at the end.
The only thing that *makes* societies work today is whatever can be done around governments. Governments are damage that businesses have to work around (and I do too) in order to create the economy that the modern societies get to enjoy.
This is absolutely my experience. Running a small business, have to joggle issues, people, client problems, new opportunities etc., and then of-course other non-business related things. Doing it in more than one time zone as well. Yes, it is draining, tiring, hard to do. I like running the business, I like building the services and products, I like dealing with every day interesting questions. I do very often feel overwhelmed, often procrastinate solving any one of the problems present because there is such a large number of them and they keep accumulating, sometimes it feels like a never ending stream of blows coming all at once that I just end up not dealing with any of them but then stay up very late at night because things still have to be solved.
This, mixed with a constant stream of client issues, personnel issues, unexpected expenses, clients not paying their bills, having to deal with paying all of my bills on time, etc., it is difficult to see sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel. So taking one day a week off from the never ending work, going to gym, wasting some time on this site is something that keeps me somewhat sane I suppose:)
Ti me there is no difference between Hilary and Trump and Sanders, the end result is more collectivism, either socialism or fascism and I am against all forms of collectivism.
Why shouldn't it he you but the company taking upon itself to 'feed' you while you are a huge unknown as a worker????? You think that just because it is a business it is not a person behind it who also has to eat? So it is OK for a business to lose time and money trying and training yet another employee but it is not OK for a person looking for a job to spend time and money that way? Why is that? In any case, I know 100% where I stand on this issue, which is why I have my offices where this is not even a question.
I do train people I hire, my point is that in an environment where hiring and firing is extremely expensive you cannot make decisions lightly. Can you say ahead of time a person would work out in your company? I had situations where I had no choice but to fire people unfortunately, people that even have gone through training, where I spent the time and effort and at the end they didn't work out for various reasons (most importantly they just weren't good at developing, they shouldn't be in the field). To reduce my risks and costs I built teams in the cheapest to hire and to fire places I could access. This gives me a team that is distributed in the world, resilient to various political attacks of any one of the governments. I see governments as damage and route around them but I do train my people.
Posting from the phone is somewhat difficult, so I managed to screw up a post, here it is again, hopefully fixed this time:
I can give you anecdotes, but they are not data, here is some data instead: - 2013, not today, still it is data. 26% unemployment rate, 53% of Spanish companies have no employees.
Here are a *subset* of requirements that a company has to deal with when hiring:there is a 756.70 euro minimum wage and the maximum number of hours a person is allowed to work is 40, there is a maximum of 9 hours per day working hours (of course if you are running your own company and you are the single employee, you can work as many hours as it takes).
The payroll tax is 31.6% of the first 36000 euros (that is the employer portion, so whatever the salary you would be paying someone, add 31.6% to that for the payroll tax) the employee also pays 6.4%. Of course that means the cost to the employer is 131.6% and the employee gets 93.6% that is of the negotiated salary, which, by the way is mandated by the government for different industries, so there are price and wage controls.
If a minimum wage is paid, after the 31.6% payroll tax the real minimum wage is 995.81, at 4 weeks a moth of mandatory maximum 40 hour weeks, that makes 6.22 euro the minimum wage. That is already too high, however that is not all. There are mandatory vacation days and holidays where each employee is entitled to 44 days of paid fays off by the employer. That adds another what, 10% to the minimum wage? That is closer to 7euro an hour minimum. That is still a month and a half that the employee is not working, so somebody else has to be there for that, another employee with another 7 euro an hour, so now you have no choice but to have 2 people minimum for the job of one and the minimum is now closer to 14 euro an hour.
If an employee gets sick then they can take an 18 month sick leave and the employer must pay 70% of their salary and the employer must hire the employee back at the end, but there is already an interim working there instead, what happens then?
Maternity leave is 16 weeks minimum, which can be extended much beyond the 16 weeks if there are complications or twins, whatever , and the employer has to take that person back, again, what about the interim?
If an employee makes an allegation that th e employer 'discriminated' against them based on any of the following: sex, gender, race, age, ethnicity, ideology, religion, disability, union membership. Labour authority, which is *not* a court, can fine the employer anywhere between 6251 euro to 187000 euros (hundred and eighty thousand). So if you *do not hire* somebody or *fire* somebody or they allege you harass them, you can lose up to 187000 euro and then the employee can allege that you "retaliated" against them and the same tribunal can fine you again.
If you want to fire somebody, have to give them 15 day notice and 20 days severance pay for every year they worked. This is if you have a "valid reason".
If you don't have a " valid reason", you are on the hook for 45 days of severance pay for every year they worked and the there is another tribunal to determine if the reason is "valid".
If there is a merger or you sold your company and a worker g
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I remember seeing something with it's name here I think, that does not matter, because obviously I did not find it relevant for me to remember. I am not finding it relevant to me now either, but that is not the point once again. It is the ridiculous way these stories are smarized, there is no context, there isn't even a link to an earlier story where the context could be derived. It is all circular and self referencing and the only reason I bothered to leave this comment is specifically because of this horrible story telling style that is so common here. I mean there is half a story that is half interesting somewhere in there, after all, it is a story of government oppression of the individual rights, but it is written in the most useless manner.
Putin and his very small hands... He wants 'the Internet encryption keys' in his small hands.
OK, so that is funny. But consider that in the last year Putin increased the police force by a large number in Russia and he signed a law that would require the country to build him his own 'national guard', everybody sees it the same way: he is scared of a coup and he wants his own army around him at all times. Him and his small hands, he is scared to be overthrown and as a KGB operative he knows that he can be overthrown and he decides he needs a couple hundred thousand body guards.
This move against encryption of all sorts is based on the same fear. He is scared of everything, scared he will not find out about a gathering of people somewhere and won't jail them in time before they make it to any news that still exists (and journalism is the most dangerous activity in that country, journalists murdered and beaten by the government). He is afraid to end up in the same way Quadaffi and Hussein ended up in. He should be scared, people are very tired of him. The majority of people in Russia wouldn't move a finger to get ridbof him, but it doesn't take a majority, only a few determined people and that is what he is afraid of most.
Needless to say there are other business interests that are government owned and that would love to have access to all communications that would prevent any competition against them.
Also FSB has their google like search servers installed at every ISP and every communications company in Russia, searching for stuff and recording what matches specific parameters, but the new law also imposes an obligation to all communications companoes to record all traffic and all communications for a minimum of 6 months.
The companies are saying this will cost them billions and will cause rate hikes, the government officials are replying that is nonsense, it will cost nothing and any rate hike because of it would be a money grab. Right, because it costs nothing to record 6 months of internet traffic.
As to this requirement to the FSB to get all of the encryption keys, I wonder who Putin wants to fire 2 weeks from now, because it sounds like an old Russian fairy tale of a tsar telling his servant to go some place that cannot ne found and to get him something that does not exist and if he fails to deliver his head is coming off...
Sorry, who? What is Theranos? I do not want to google it, and will not click any google links for this one either, dont care, but why isn't there a single sentence with half a description on what this Theranos is and why the fucking government messing with it?
IRS is tyranny obviously, the government does not own you, so it does not own your income, not any part of it. FBI is tyranny as well.
As to robocalls from IRS - also clearly illegal.
As to being a twit, you have already shown yourself as one being anti-human anti-individual freedoms shit that you are.
This isn't Iran, if you have a problem you protest peacefully or become active in politics yourself, you don't fucking assassinate people.
- I disagree. I think assassinating government officials makes perfect sense, they don't give a hoot about assassinating anybody and everybody if that's what it takes to stay in power. Starting wars, murdering thousands, tens, hundreds of thousands, millions, all of this is done by governments. Sure, sure, governments have support of their people, but that's the problem - the people are very often uninformed, unintelligent creatures that follow another 'charismatic' asshole down the drain. Sometimes that 'charismatic' asshole needs to be taken down to pull the people out of their idiocy. Sometimes the dear leader simply cannot be replaced by any other means (see North Korea for example).
As to the fucking collectivist governments, like the ones in USA, EU, those are the worst types of offenders where it comes to impossibility of getting rid of a completely fucked up situation.
I am against the very existence of the IRS, Federal reserve bank, FDIC, FHA, EPA, FCC, FBI, departments of all shapes and sizes, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, every form of welfare, every form of theft and redistribution.
These things cannot be eliminated because the people who are voting will always vote to take from others what they think is their entitlement. These things should not exist in the USA in the first place, not a single one of them is Constitutional, every one of them is usurpation of power. AFAIC the power is already such that it is way beyond the normal process, there is no way to abolish all of these institutions without a violent event. A violent event is coming, it will be brought upon by the crash of the US bonds and the dollar itself. The violence is coming and these institutions will be gone simply because the very foundation for them, the US dollar that is fake (defaulted upon back in 1971) is going to fail and the Fed will make sure it fails in the worst way possible.
We are alive on this planet today, not tomorrow necessarily, not 100 years from now but right now. We should not suffer any of this right now.
Why does it bug you? Did you really assume that USA was a nation of laws and not a nation of men?
There are men and women like the Clintons, who are above the law.
Then there are men (and possibly some women) like Irwin Schiff, who actually were severely punished for bringing up the real law.
I don't know what your preferences are politically, but you can definitely vote your conscience. http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pay-attention-to-libertarian-gary-johnson-hes-pulling-10-vs-trump-and-clinton/>Gary Johnson has 10% of the overall electorate vote today.
There are other third party candidates there, some are horrendous Marxists basically, like Stein, whatever. You can vote what you really think rather than taking a part in this false choice.
Shit, write in Darth Vader if that's your real preference.
WTF are you talking about? Government absolutely spams people. Government is a bunch of politicians, each one with their own agenda, each one trying to make some money/name for himself. This has nothing to do with any so called 'public good' (there is no such thing anyway). These robocalls are illegal and now the government says: fuck you all, we are above the law. We will call you, promote our agenda, ask for money, threaten you into compliance, into voting a particular way, etc.etc.etc.
Tyranny of a collectivist government is worse than tyranny of a singular tyrant. A tyrant can be taken down, even killed. How do you kill the hydra that is a collectivist government?
Ok, but how many Teslas are on the roads today? Under 200,000 for sure.
How many GMs, Fods, Chryslers are out there? Tens of millions if not more.
You can compare them but you have to do it right.
Oh, are you kidding? Now that Snapchat can SAVE the pictures taken with your camera to your very phone... I say it increases the 20 or so billion Snapchat market cap by another 5 at least, basically adds the value of an airline like Lufthansa to the extremely important piece of Internet infrastructure that is Snapchat. I mean pfft, an airline with 268 aircraft (615 aircraft if you count all of the subsidiaries)., 220 destinations, 32.4 Billion Euro in assets, about 32 billion in revenues, 1.67 billion in operating income, 1.69 billion in net income, 5.8 billion in equity, carrying over 106 million paying passengers in 2014...
versus
Snapchat, a 25.8MB phone application, OK? Available in 20 languages! Images that can (supposedly) disappear in 10 seconds, delivering amazing 10 BILLION video views a day.
In May 2016, Snapchat raised $1.81 billion in equity offering
. Eat that, Lufthansa.
so the app whose main claim to fame was that your pictures (and video?) would disappear from the screen of the recipient has pivoted to the functionality of storing those pictures (like your good old camera app does already) so that they can be sent out again later?
OK, the innovation is staggering. I am sure this adds a few billions to the valuation...
Bond rates are zero or negative, yes, so you are saying: load up. That is right, that is why the *governments* pushed towards 0 or negative, so that you would load up.
You are also very right when you said: *right now*.
Here is where you are wrong: it is better to take on gigantic debt for a public project rather than let the economy restructure and get rid of debt. It *is* the government that pushed the interest rates down, not the markets. The markets will push interest rates up and this happens very unexpectedly, very quickly and violently. The government pushes a beach ball lower and lower under the water, when the ball slips out, it will jump that much higher because of it.
To ignore that and to say: load up, it is really low now, is to create an environment that will lead to a catastrophy of proportions that much greater once the government can no longer hold the rates at artificially low level and then the market realizes none of these debts can be repaid with actual productive output, only with more printing. Printing is defaulting, only production is debt repayment. So markets will push interest rates up to levels that all of a sudden will murder the fake economies based on debt that is unpayable.
From 0% to 22% interest rate in a very short time period, your trillions of debt .... Self destruction follows quickly.
Unless you are implying that Bill is a woman you really should accent a different word in that sentence.
Remember, she stood by *her* man when he was sleeping with other women.
AFAIC the entire USA government for the last 100 years should be in jail for warmongering, theft, kidnapping, murder, what's your point?
I *agree*, it is the entire USA. Wait, is it the *entire* USA though? How many people were completely against invading foreign countries, bombing, etc.? I guess it's hard to say, those people have been silenced.
I do however remember seeing her votes and even seeing her cheering as Saddam's neck was broken in the hanging.
careful what you suggest
- oh? But I don't mind. Didn't she basically create that group by pressing for more and more bombings, wars, cheering for Saddam's murder, etc.? What goes around...
It was obvious that they would never indict her. She's too big to jail.
- true that. Maybe she needs to be broken up into a number of smaller Hillaries, each one just small enough that it can be jailed.
Comey added that while there is "evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information," they think that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case." The Verge reports:
- so while a crime was committed, no reasonable prosecutor would bring up such a case.
What Comey means by this is that no prosecutor in his right mind would attack Hillary regardless of what she does. She could kill a man on camera and no reasonable prosecutor would attack her, they would probably declare it a "victory for the women's movement".
Yeah yeah, funny, however if they keep working for you at that point, good for you. The maximum I had to trains somebody was 3 months. The guy never programmed before.
Firing him wasn't an excuse, he punched a co-worker. They had to fire him at that point.
- the society is sick when the system is set up in such a way that if a company doesn't fire somebody who punches somebody else, it is the company that gets screwed at the end.
The only thing that *makes* societies work today is whatever can be done around governments. Governments are damage that businesses have to work around (and I do too) in order to create the economy that the modern societies get to enjoy.
This is absolutely my experience. Running a small business, have to joggle issues, people, client problems, new opportunities etc., and then of-course other non-business related things. Doing it in more than one time zone as well. Yes, it is draining, tiring, hard to do. I like running the business, I like building the services and products, I like dealing with every day interesting questions. I do very often feel overwhelmed, often procrastinate solving any one of the problems present because there is such a large number of them and they keep accumulating, sometimes it feels like a never ending stream of blows coming all at once that I just end up not dealing with any of them but then stay up very late at night because things still have to be solved.
This, mixed with a constant stream of client issues, personnel issues, unexpected expenses, clients not paying their bills, having to deal with paying all of my bills on time, etc., it is difficult to see sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel. So taking one day a week off from the never ending work, going to gym, wasting some time on this site is something that keeps me somewhat sane I suppose :)
Ti me there is no difference between Hilary and Trump and Sanders, the end result is more collectivism, either socialism or fascism and I am against all forms of collectivism.
Vote Gary Johnson.
Why shouldn't it he you but the company taking upon itself to 'feed' you while you are a huge unknown as a worker????? You think that just because it is a business it is not a person behind it who also has to eat? So it is OK for a business to lose time and money trying and training yet another employee but it is not OK for a person looking for a job to spend time and money that way? Why is that? In any case, I know 100% where I stand on this issue, which is why I have my offices where this is not even a question.
I do train people I hire, my point is that in an environment where hiring and firing is extremely expensive you cannot make decisions lightly. Can you say ahead of time a person would work out in your company? I had situations where I had no choice but to fire people unfortunately, people that even have gone through training, where I spent the time and effort and at the end they didn't work out for various reasons (most importantly they just weren't good at developing, they shouldn't be in the field). To reduce my risks and costs I built teams in the cheapest to hire and to fire places I could access. This gives me a team that is distributed in the world, resilient to various political attacks of any one of the governments. I see governments as damage and route around them but I do train my people.
Posting from the phone is somewhat difficult, so I managed to screw up a post, here it is again, hopefully fixed this time:
I can give you anecdotes, but they are not data, here is some data instead: - 2013, not today, still it is data. 26% unemployment rate, 53% of Spanish companies have no employees.
Figures from the INE statistics office show that 53 percent of Spanish companies have no employees, as many can't afford to hire full-time workers. That portion reached 55 percent last year. The total number of businesses declined for a fifth year in 2012, falling to the lowest level since 2005, the INE said in a statement this month.
While the number of companies seeking protection from creditors fell to 2,408 in the three months through June, the count was 62 percent higher than in the same period in 2011.
We need to help companies to consolidate or else we'll keep on churning out companies that go bust after a year, Andrade said in a telephone interview
Here are a *subset* of requirements that a company has to deal with when hiring:there is a 756.70 euro minimum wage and the maximum number of hours a person is allowed to work is 40, there is a maximum of 9 hours per day working hours (of course if you are running your own company and you are the single employee, you can work as many hours as it takes).
The payroll tax is 31.6% of the first 36000 euros (that is the employer portion, so whatever the salary you would be paying someone, add 31.6% to that for the payroll tax) the employee also pays 6.4%. Of course that means the cost to the employer is 131.6% and the employee gets 93.6% that is of the negotiated salary, which, by the way is mandated by the government for different industries, so there are price and wage controls.
If a minimum wage is paid, after the 31.6% payroll tax the real minimum wage is 995.81, at 4 weeks a moth of mandatory maximum 40 hour weeks, that makes 6.22 euro the minimum wage. That is already too high, however that is not all. There are mandatory vacation days and holidays where each employee is entitled to 44 days of paid fays off by the employer. That adds another what, 10% to the minimum wage? That is closer to 7euro an hour minimum. That is still a month and a half that the employee is not working, so somebody else has to be there for that, another employee with another 7 euro an hour, so now you have no choice but to have 2 people minimum for the job of one and the minimum is now closer to 14 euro an hour.
If an employee gets sick then they can take an 18 month sick leave and the employer must pay 70% of their salary and the employer must hire the employee back at the end, but there is already an interim working there instead, what happens then?
Maternity leave is 16 weeks minimum, which can be extended much beyond the 16 weeks if there are complications or twins, whatever , and the employer has to take that person back, again, what about the interim?
If an employee makes an allegation that th e employer 'discriminated' against them based on any of the following: sex, gender, race, age, ethnicity, ideology, religion, disability, union membership. Labour authority, which is *not* a court, can fine the employer anywhere between 6251 euro to 187000 euros (hundred and eighty thousand). So if you *do not hire* somebody or *fire* somebody or they allege you harass them, you can lose up to 187000 euro and then the employee can allege that you "retaliated" against them and the same tribunal can fine you again.
If you want to fire somebody, have to give them 15 day notice and 20 days severance pay for every year they worked. This is if you have a "valid reason".
If you don't have a " valid reason", you are on the hook for 45 days of severance pay for every year they worked and the there is another tribunal to determine if the reason is "valid".
If there is a merger or you sold your company and a worker g