Labour Law Topics
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 466
Employment Contract Does not End when Labour Incapacitated Employee Starts Working for Another Employer
An employer mistakenly believed that the employment contract with an employee who had become incapacitated for work had terminated when she had started performing suitable work for another employer. As a result, the employer had to pay the...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 465
Compensation for Failure to Extend Fixed Term Employment Contract
After it was found that an employee had falsely been accused of sexual harassment, the employer withdrew the given notice of the summary dismissal and he still paid the wages. But the employer was not willing to extend the fixed-term employment...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 464
Annulment of Settlement Agreement because of Error?
An employer had terminated the employment contract with a labour incapacitated employee by means of a settlement agreement. In summary proceedings, the Court of Appeal ruled that it would be plausible that the Court dealing with the proceedings on...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 463
Employer Obliged to Pay Compensation for Failure to Comply with Notice Requirement in Writing
The Sub-district Court ordered an employer to compensate a retired employee for missed additional days of paid leave the employee had been entitled to because of her age. The employer owed this compensation because the employee had not been informed...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 462
Salary Freeze for Refusing Medical Expert Examination was Unjustly Imposed
The Sub-district Court obliged an employer who, advised by the occupational physician, had required a sick employee to cooperate in a medical expert examination and who had refused to pay the sick pay when the employee had failed to do so, to...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 461
No Entitlement to Overtime Bonus for Mandatory Training outside Scope of Working Hours
An employer who, under the CLA. was obliged to offer his employers training during working hours, was obliged to continue to pay the wages during the training, but not to pay the overtime bonus on top when this training takes place outside the scope...