error: ISO C++ forbids in-class initialization of non-const static member

The initialization of the static member counter must not be in the header file.

Change the line in the header file to

static int counter;

And add the following line to your employee.cpp:

int Employee::counter = 0;

Reason is that putting such an initialization in the header file would duplicate the initialization code in every place where the header is included.

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