From 1 July, companies will only be able to hire workers on fixed-term contracts in certain circumstances. These circumstances are listed in the Working Environment Act, as amended by the parliament. Specifically, employers will now only be allowed to recruit people on a temporary basis: “when the work is of a temporary nature”; to “temporarily replace one or more persons”; to hire a trainee; or as part of an employment programme run by the Labour and Welfare Organization.
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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
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