Why does TreeSet throw a ClassCastException?

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Either Employee has to implement Comparable, or you need to provide a comparator when creating the TreeSet.

This is spelled out in the documentation for SortedSet:

All elements inserted into a sorted set must implement the Comparable interface (or be accepted by the specified comparator). Furthermore, all such elements must be mutually comparable: e1.compareTo(e2) (or comparator.compare(e1, e2)) must not throw a ClassCastException for any elements e1 and e2 in the sorted set. Attempts to violate this restriction will cause the offending method or constructor invocation to throw a ClassCastException.

If you don’t fulfil these requirements, the sorted set won’t know how to compare its elements and won’t be able to function.

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