The Central Netherlands District Court recently held that failure to turn up at work and failing to contact an employer would justify summary dismissal. What was the background here? The employee had been employed for a fixed period as a webshop worker since 1 November 2018. His second employment...
Relaxation of RVU: wider scope for early retirement!
On 1 January 2006, the tax advantage of “VUT” and other early retirement schemes was abolished. From then on, a scheme applies which is designed to offer employees a bridging payment until they reach pension age, in the form of an Early Retirement Scheme (“RVU”). The pension agreement of...
CLINT | Littler welcomes Petra Greuter
We are pleased to announce that CLINT | Littler has hired Petra Greuter as an associate with effect from 1 October 2020. Petra started her legal carreer as a lawyer in the employment law practice at Lexence. Petra has broad experience in the field of individual and collective dismissal...
New contract after dismissal during probationary period allowed?
A probationary period sometimes isn’t long enough to gain a good impression of an employee and the employer might still want to give the employee a further chance. There has recently been a ruling from the District Court of Midden-Nederland (click here, Dutch only) in a case where the...