Dormant employment contracts in the Netherlands

These Dutch news will focus on the problem of the so-called dormant employment contracts and the solution that was eventually found for that problem. A dormant employment contract is a contract that still exists, but that is not executed any more. The employer does not pay wages and the employee does not work. Essentially, the contract becomes an empty shell. As this situation was deemed undesirable, the legislator as well as the (lower) courts were regularly asked for solutions. In November .