Wages 100% maintained. Employees at DAF Truck will keep 100% of their salary (65% paid by the employer and 35% by the unemployment insurance) and their rights to unemployment insurance and pension rights, but they will have to give up extra paid holidays (statutory minimum is 20 days) during the period. “We negotiated a good agreement avoiding as many layoffs as possible, but we had to give DAF something” said Jan Haagmans, negotiator for FNV Bondgenoten. Thus, the company may appeal to a social plan if the economic situation worsens. DAF Trucks’ management can choose this option after every three-month period. Each time, it will have two weeks to make a decision before renewing the short-time working period. In exchange for this substantial compromise, DAF Trucks will have to respect the principle agreement negotiated by the social partners at the end of march which provides that employees on short-time working can only be laid off after 12 weeks after the end of the period (see our dispatch No. 090390). This period was even extended to 26 weeks in case of a social plan.
system, originally planned for natural disasters, was extended to businesses most badly hit by the crisis in November 2008 (see our dispatch No. 081049). On April 1, 2009, it was replaced by short-time working (see our dispatch No. 090340).
Wages 100% maintained. Employees at DAF Truck will keep 100% of their salary (65% paid by the employer and 35% by the unemployment insurance) and their rights to unemployment insurance and pension rights, but they will have to give up extra paid holidays (sta
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