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illness
Restrictive COVID-19 measures are affecting the evaluation of employers’ rehabilitation efforts. The Employee Insurance Agency (UWV) is aware that – because of COVID-19 – it is not always possible to do enough in the rehabilitating process. That said, it is not an excuse for employers to stop their rehabilitation...
The secondment provision has been established practice in secondment circles for some time. This provision applies as a matter of course to secondment workers who have worked for the secondment agency for a period of fewer than 78 weeks unless its application is specifically excluded in writing. The provision...
Sooner or later, every employer is confronted with an employee’s absence due to illness. This is obviously unfortunate for the employee, but has significant consequences for the employer as well: work accumulates, the employee’s colleagues come under additional pressure and costs increase – all good reasons to enable the...
The Rotterdam Subdistrict Court recently ruled on the dismissal of a director who had called in sick. One of the questions which played a role in the case was whether the director was entitled to invoke the prohibition against termination of employment during an employee’s illness. The court ultimately...