Netherlands: jobseekers obliged to accept any job after one year

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alizes the measure announced in June 2008 (see our dispatch No. 080594) reforming the unemployment insurance system and forcing all jobseekers to accept any job after one year receiving benefits. (Ref. 090255)

The new act reforms
the unemployment insurance system and now forces all workers entitled to
unemployment insurance (UWV) to accept any job after a year receiving benefits,
or the latter may be removed. The measure was decided last year to bring as
many people as possible on the labor ma

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