Netherlands: bill forces employers to inform unions after 21 leaves negotiated with employees

or Labor and Social Affairs announced, on February 17, a new amendment to the law on information in the event of mass layoffs. Businesses will have to inform unions as they do for mass layoffs after more than 20 individual leaves are negotiated. (Ref. 100158)

Employers will still be able to appeal to individual agreements with the employees let go, a procedure increasingly common in the Netherlands. But, if this bill is adopted, these agreements will no longer let them avoid the obligation to