On January 25th, four multinational companies; Philips, Shell, Unilever and Azko Nobel have once again backed the draft law -currently in Parliament- which aims at "flexibilising" layoffs and dismissals, in order to facilitate hiring. As usual, a reform involving flexisecurity leads to a reform of unemployment insurance. (Ref. 0684)
According to the draft reform :
-starting October 1st 2006, employees wishing to claim unemployment benefits will no longer have to go to court to prove that they were unjustly fired. Today, a fired employee cannot claim unemployment insurance if he cannot prove that he was unfairly fired.
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