Labour Law Topics
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 571
Employer is Liable for Damage Resulting from Employee’s Psychological Complaints
An employer was held liable for the damage suffered by an employee due to absenteeism for psychological complaints as a result of an incident at work, as the employer had no policy to prevent the incident and as the employer had failed to provide...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 570
Employee has no Right of Access to Employment Dispute-related Case-file
Based on the GDPR, an employee had asked her employer to give her access to all personal data the employer had processed about her. The employer, however, had rightly refused to provide access to the records of the employer’s discussion with his...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 569
Employment Contract not Dissolved in Spite of Failure to Cooperate in Reintegration
The Sub-district Court could not dissolve the employment contract of an incapacitated employee who did not cooperate in his reintegration, since the failure to cooperate was a result of his illness. An employee had been employed by a building...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 568
Three Notices in Advance that the Fixed Term Employment Contract Will not be Extended Does not Work
An employer could not beforehand validly indicate in the employment contract, that the employment contract would not be extended after the agreed term had expired, after he had indicated so twice before, but had extended the employment contract...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 567
Employer has to Pay Equitable Compensation for Failure to Extend Employment Contract with Sick Employee
Since an employer had failed to express the reason why the employment contract with a chronically ill employee had not been extended, the Sub-district Court assumed that the chronic illness had been the reason. Therefore the employer had acted...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 566
Employee has to Give the Employer Access to the GP ‘s Medical Record
An employee had claimed compensation for injury from his employer after an industrial accident. The Court ordered the employee to make the GP’s medical record over the two-year period preceding the industrial accident available to the employer,...