After declaring the the most important layoffs Historically, large US tech companies have struggled to downsize in Europe.

In the US, companies have cut jobs across the board. Meanwhile, Europe’s OSH protects workers from mass layoffs at tech companies without prior consultation with workers’ stakeholders, Bloomberg reports.

In France and Germany, labor laws are among the strongest in the EU. Google is currently negotiating with works councils to negotiate with management on HR issues.

In France, Google parent alphabet inc GOOD Google is in talks to reduce headcount through voluntary redundancy and is offering severance packages.

Amazon.Com Inc AMZN has tried to persuade some senior managers there to resign by offering up to a year’s salary and has given departing employees time off so their shares can be carried over for distribution as bonuses.

Due to the conditions Google branches out If at all, Germany and France will be the last locations to be affected by the cuts.

Google acknowledged the negotiations, adding that no layoffs are planned in Romania, Greece or Austria. The same applies to Paris, where Google employs around 1,600 people.

In contrast, In the United Kingdom, where occupational safety and health is not as strict, an estimated 500 out of 8,000 Googlers have to go. The same is true in Dublin, where unions say Google plans to lay off 240 employees, and in Zurich, where unions expect around 200 layoffs.

Amazon, Alphabet and Metaplatforms Inc META employ over 170,000 full-time technicians on the continent and in the UK software engineers often earn half as much as their US counterparts

At Amazon France with around 1,500 office workers in Paris, some senior managers with 5-8 years experience have been offered up to a year’s salary to leave. Amazon allowed departing employees to stay on “garden vacation” until May, when Amazon stock vests.