Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
I did consider this as I was typing, which is why I added the caveat "fair productivity targets". If it can be shown in straight numbers that the employee has met the targets, then you're gonna need a really good reason to "let them go".

There isn't a need for more regulation. Unfair dismissal is already a thing.
Then the 8 month mark instead. Regardless, if policymakers did everything they possibly could to make this regulation "work," then we're back to where we started: where nobody wants to hire low-skill and where production gains are much slower and more costly than they are today.

The USSR went the opposite direction of what I'm describing. They made "hiring" mandatory, and the result was productivity sinking to subterranean levels. In your situation, if people aren't forced to hire, it would have a different (but similarly bad) effect of creating vast unemployment.