Legislative changes to the Employment Protection Act are applicable for all employers as of 1 October 2022. When assessing whether to terminate an employment contract due to personal reasons, the employer no longer needs to consider the employee’s personal situation or interest in retaining the employment. As concerns dismissal due to redundancy, all employers are now entitled to exempt three employees when determining the order of priority for dismissal in a redundancy situation. Furthermore, general fixed-term employment has been replaced with special fixed-term employment. The special fixed-term employment will automatically transfer into an indefinite employment after twelve months of fixed-term employment.
Read on: in English…
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.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.