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Dismissal of an employee for refusal to work / Dutch Labour Law

Dutch Labour Law for Managers #9

Dutch Labour Law. Be prepared and informed.

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This Dutch Labour Law case will enlighten managers whether an employee can be dismissed if he/she refuses to work or follow orders.

The employee (complainant) approached the court because he was summary dismissed due to alleged refusal to work. The…

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While European nationals working in Britain make up just 5 percent of the 31.5 million-strong…

Losing your job as an expat in the Netherlands

Losing your residence right

With an employment-based residence permit (such as a highly skilled migrant permit or a permit for paid employment), premature employment termination does not only mean losing your source of income.

It can also result in losing the right to stay in the Netherlands. In order to give you a chance to prolong your stay, Dutch law provides for a three-month search period…

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Dutch Managers must decide if they are going to follow the easy or the difficult route with the management of the Work and Security act. The easy route may seem difficult and expensive in the beginning, but the benefits that it will yield in terms of personnel engagement and labour relations can not be overestimated.

Easy:

Insure that sound Human Resourcepractices are in place. If the company…

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Mercedes-Benz is bucking modern HR trends in the manufacturing industry by trading in some of its assembly line robots in favour of actual people.

“Rob…

The elements of a modern EU Labour Market – Enrique Fernández-Macías

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Flexible Dutch labour contracts worry Brussels: new report – DutchNews.nl

The European Commission has expressed its concerns about the impact of the rise in flexible employment contracts on the Dutch economy in a new report. While total employment has risen steadily and the unemployment rate has continued to decline ‘rising long-term unemployment and the potential segmentation of the labour market are of concern,’ the report on the Dutch economy in 2016, states. ‘Low…

Employment bridge for V&D unemployed #assherbridge #dutchlabourlaw

Deputy Prime Minister Asscher wants to make the new Employment bridge (Brug-WW) accessible for the retrenched employees of V&D.

This employment bridge procedure entails that when an unemployed person is employed at a new employer where the person must receive retraining, he/she will receive unemployment benefits for the time that they receive training. The employer will only remunerate the…

Dutch dismissal law: how to dismisse an empoyee for criminal allegations

An employee was dismissed because he used the company fuel card to put fuel in his wife’s car. The employee (claimant) argued that the summery dismissal was unlawful because a criminal law term (theft) was used as reason for his dismissal.

Dutch labour law for managers #9 Dutch Labour law: Be prepared and informed Extract

The employee misused a company fuel card. The criminal law term of theft…

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If your schedule looks like a Tetris board full of…

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Psychological Effects of Long-Term Unemployment

Long-term unemployed are more than 3x likely to be depressed than full-time unemployed

As a part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Gallup conducted a survey to study the psychological effects of long-term unemployment and found some startling new data:

Depression: Long-term unemployed are more than 3x likely to be depressed than full-time unemployed

While only 5.6% of Americans employed…