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Contract trap regarding remote work in Europe (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by raicon@lemmy.world to c/golang@programming.dev

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I was applying for a senior backend engineer job in this european startup in the healthcare sector.

I passed through 4 rounds of 1 hour interviews. Everyone was telling me this company is remote first, nobody works at the office.

Contract type is as remote on linkedin.

The offer arrived, 80k euros. They are very reluctant in giving the contract to me so I can proceed with the bureaucracy regarding blue card and job change before 12 months.

The contract arrives and it's full of traps:

They can require work on weekends and holidays with no notice
There isn't a single mention to remote working on the contract
They can relocate me to any place with a 2 months notice
HR refused to add remote clause on the contract

To make it even worse, they were processing my emails through an undisclosed AI tool using chatgpt, in which I've sent my personal documents.

Avoid these traps like hellfire.

Company name is Recare.

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[–] raicon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I did ask them. They aaid they do not enforce any of these things.

When I asked them to change the contract so they are not enforceable they refused.

They refused any changes to the contract at all.

[+] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de -6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're fair to ask but its also fine for them not to change. You could trust them and see if they hold their word that they're not enforced. TBH those things just sound like legalese to protect their ass.

Just like you won't perfectly hold your end of the contract, they won't enforce theirs.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

Eh?

This is the opposite of good advice. “You could just trust them” on signing a legal contract with extreme differences between the stated terms and the written terms? Would you do the same for a divorce?

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why are you defending scummy business practices? Are they paying you? Do you like it when shittu businesses do shitty things to normal people? Then why the fuck are you defending them?

Stop normalizing shitty behavior and instead be a part of the solution.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The remote advertising thing sure that's poor but what else is shitty exactly? Not changing a contract?

You can be idealist and complain, that's good, but might just need to wait a while to find what you want.

I mean take it and see if they do it, and if they do just quit, what's the difference.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Unpaid overtime and forced relocation are also pretty Terrible...