Netherlands: employers criticize partial unemployment

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system, which replaces the Arbeidstijdverkorting (ATV, working time reduction) since April 1, is far from getting unanimous support. Employers from large groups badly affected by the crisis severely criticized it. (Ref. 090390)

When interviewed
by the Het Financieele Dagblad
financial daily, Aad Goudriaan, CEO of DAF Trucks, said that the procedural
rules of the new system (see
our dispatch No. 090340
) are too complicated and give too good a deal
to unions. Indeed, the employee concerned need

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