Labour Law Topics
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 493
Employee has to Repay the Training Costs, Borne by the Employer, upon Termination of the Employment
Since the training had not been necessary for the employee's job performance, an employee who had terminated his employment contract had to repay the study costs borne by the employer, as agreed with the employer in advance. On 1 January 2021,...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 492
Employer Liable for Damage Arising from “Long Covid”
An employer had to compensate a nurse for damage suffered by her as a result of a Covid-19 infection, contracted while at work, because the employer had failed to fulfilled its duty of care for safe working conditions. In April 2020, a nurse...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 491
Payment of Holidays during Third Year of Illness
Under European jurisprudence, holidays shall be paid out according to the wage the employee would have received if he/she would have normally worked. The fact that the employee would not have received any wages if he would not have taken the...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 490
In the Absence of a Written Statement on the Duration, the Oral Employment Contract was a Contract for an Indefinite Period
An employer sent a written fixed-term employment contract proposal to an employee, but the employee had failed to sign it. When this caused a dispute on whether the employment contract had been entered into for a definite or for an indefinite...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 489
UWV Sets Excessively High Requirements on the Employer’s Employability Report
employee, the UWV had imposed a sick pay penalty on an employer, who was a self-insurer for the Sickness Benefits Act. The Central Appeals Tribunal, however, held the opinion that the UWV had not made it plausible that the employer had made...
Arbeidsrecht Actueel 488
Equitable Remuneration for Seriously Ill Employee’s Contract Termination during the Probationary Period
An employer who had terminated the contract of an employee with lung cancer during her probationary period had to pay high equitable compensation to this employee since dismissing this employee was seriously culpable. A nursing home had entered...