In a judgment rendered on April 16, the ECJ ruled that national regulations imposing to draft employment contracts, even for cross-border services, in a certain language on pain of nullity constituted a restriction of the free movement of workers. (Ref. 130261)
The main issue of the case was an employee hired with a contract written in English with a company located in Belgian Flanders. The employee was Dutch and was supposed to work in Belgium after he started working in the Netherlands. When he was fired, he turned to the Belgian justice to object to the layoff benefits, claiming that the provision defining the layoff allowance in his contract was null.
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