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

submitted 2 days 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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[–] needanke@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I doubt home inspections would fly with German law. Unpaid overtime is legal as long as the legal limits wrt to total working time and minimum wage are met (which they will if you are making 80k...). Requiring the home office to be secured seems legal depending on the working environment (does it also need to be secured outside of working hours?).

They can require work on weekends and holidays with no notice

Working weakends or Holidays can be legal depending on the work . No notice seems illegal (unless they are paying you to be on call).

There isn't a single mention to remote working on the contract

This is a red flag, there is no obligation for employers to enable remote work, so if it's not in the contract you don't have anything to fall back on. This might be especially problematic for working from outside of the EU.

They can relocate me to any place with a 2 months notice

If it is really that broad that is probably unenforcable.

Take all of this with a grain of salt, I am not a lawyer.

Honestly, depending on how much you like the position otherwise and how much you need the job, I'd tell them to change the contract (esp. the homeoffice clause) or you're out and then just walk if they don't.