A first in the Netherlands : on a union and a professional association's request, the factory inspectorate referred, on February 6, 2007, to the public prosecutor in order to compensate the widow of a Polish temp worker, who died in November 2005, on a Dutch construction site. In addition, the parliament amended the law on working conditions in order to give a sense of responsibility to companies appealing to temp work. (Ref. 070114)
Before he fell down a roof during demolition operations, Pjotr Mikszik, 53, had been assigned as a specialized worker – qualifications he actually did not have– in the construction company LMB, by the temp work agency Euro Business Holland. The federation of Dutch unions (FNV,) and the association of temps work agencies Algemene Bond Uitzendondernemingen (ABU, Dutch Association of Temporary Work Agencies,) deemed that the agency is answerable for the industrial accident. ABU is protesting aga
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