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@creadom welcome fellow swiss ranter (:
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@Wackoo i do agree to get everything in writing, but in Germany at least a verbal agreement does have some contractual validity. You could fight this in Germany - my sister has done so and was successful aswell.
She’s in the social sector and worked as the head of a refugee home for teens. She got told she would get a permanent contract after a year and she of course didn’t get her contract. She went to a lawyer and filed a lawsuit. The employer got scared and they had an agreement outside of court.
Filing a lawsuit is of course not in everybody’s capability, but one should stand on hers or his rights and not just live with the bullcrap employers like to dish out. -
@fml89 verbal contracts are always valid. It's just hard to prove they took place, unless there are witnesses.
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@Wackoo the employer has to prove it didn’t happen in front of the court. At least that’s how it went down for my sister
It's not a dev quiting but my brother who worked in parcel delivery at that time.
He was hired on a temporary contract but promissed from the beginning and in every discussion they had, that he'll get a permanent position after 6 moth, if his work is good.
Fast forward 6 months. They had a meeting and told him how satisfied they where with his work so naturally he asked about the permanent contract. Fuckers acted suprise and shit. Claiming to never have said any of it. However as they are happy with him and so "generous", they offerd him another contract for 6 months and told him, they could talk about a permanent one after that period.
He kind of has a temprament, so he got up, fliped them the bird and called them lying assholes and went home. He didn't show for the time left on his contract.
The funny thing about it he worked for the swiss postal service (which is owned by the state) but not directly but through this.company providing temporary workers (which is cheaper for them as they get a shitty salary compared to a full time employee with all the benefits).
Wankers!
Nice thing though, the accounting department still sent him a christmas bonus (he quit somewhere around mai...)
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wk101