Vivian Bij de Vaate PhD, Vrije Universiteit (VU)
122 BMK | Hiring & Firing | januari 2017
The mandatory 'transition payment' in Dutch dismissal law After many years of debate, on 1 July 2015, the Dutch employment legislation, and specifically dismissal legislation, was changed by the Work and Security Act (Wet werk en zekerheid). The reform was initiated in response to some shortcomings in the Dutch dismissal system. One of the main problems was that the amount of compensation (if any) the employee received for termination depended on the employer's choice of termination procedure. The new Act was intended to redress this inequality, as well as to speed up dismissal trials and make dismissals less costly for the employer.