The government has approved a package of employment-related measures to cope with the economic and social impact of COVID-19. This package includes measures that employers can impose unilaterally, such as temporary suspension of contracts and reduction of working time by between 10% and 70%. Employees would be entitled to unemployment benefits to (partially) compensate the decrease of salary.
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