Netherlands: fewer judges agree to the judicial termination of labor contracts

ans have been accepted this year. The Het Financieele Dagblad daily says that courts refused 18% of layoff requests in 2009, as opposed to 12% in 2008 and 10% in 2007. Only 9.3.3% of layoffs were refused by the unemployment insurance (UWV) – the other way to layoff – this year. (Ref. 091134)

This rent, related to the crisis and the high unemployment rise this year in the Netherlands, could question a common practice among employers. Indeed, the latter would rather go to court to enjoy faster an