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Arbitration award orders employer to terminate employment contract with employee suffering long-term illness, leaving the employee entitled to a transition payment of over €145,000.
On 27 December 2018, the Scheidsgerecht Gezondheidszorg (Dutch healthcare arbitration tribunal) judged in a ruling in interlocutory arbitration proceedings that, in accordance with the principle of acting as a ‘reasonable and fair’ employer and on penalty of a fine, an employer can be ordered to start the procedure at the employee insurance agency…
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Act compensating employers for transition payment for employees with a long-term illness adopted in July 2018 by both the Senate and the House of Representatives
After a long period of uncertainty, this scheme is now to be introduced. An employer who dismisses an employee suffering a long-term illness and pays the transition payment can apply to the employee insurance agency UWV for compensation for the transition payment paid. The scheme applies retroactively to 1 July…
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Supreme Court 6 December 2019: Insurance portfolios, and portfolios in general, cannot be transferred/pledged
On Friday, in a long-awaited judgment, the Supreme Court determined that, since an insurance portfolio is not a property right, it cannot be transferred or pledged. Whilst in the first instance this has implications for the insurance sector, the judgment has a bearing on all sectors in which portfolios are…
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