A Dutch tribunal ordered, on July 19, 2007, the highest compensation ever paid in the Netherlands for overwork, with a total amount of 237.000 euros net. The beneficiary is a 46-year old employee, former consultant for the insurance company Nieuwe Hollandse Lloyd (Ref. 070653)
The industrial illnesses offices (Bureau Beroepsziekten, BBZ) from the Federation of Dutch Unions (FNV) supported this consultant by suing the employer. Indeed, the labour medicine declares that the employee was partially invalid in 2000, and then that he was 100% invalid in 2003, because of an “intolerable level of pressure” at work, combined with a total lack of support from his hierarchy. Jan Warning, a BZZ representative, explained that the amount of the compensation does not result from th
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