A Limburg company that fired an employee because she was not always present ten minutes before the start of her work has been reprimanded by the subdistrict court. If it is so important for employees to be present earlier, the judge says the company should also pay for it.
A further relaxation of the corona measures is not possible for the time being. In addition, it must be investigated whether the Christmas holidays can be extended at all schools. The Outbreak Management Team writes this in an advice to the cabinet, sources report to the political editors of RTL Nieuws.
The United States, Germany, Spain: they all have high hopes that they will be able to vaccinate the first people against the corona virus in December. Will the Netherlands also succeed?
Prime Minister Rutte's urgent advice to start working from home en masse has not yet been successful. The road is hardly less busy than a few weeks ago.
The cabinet is leaning towards stricter measures for public transport, amateur sports and possibly also the catering industry, according to NOS and RTL Nieuws on Monday, based on sources from The Hague. The cabinet consulted on Sunday in the Catshuis with its most important advisers about the developments surrounding the corona virus. Another press conference between Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Minister Hugo de Jonge (Public Health) is expected to take place on Tuesday evening.
The battle for away, Sinterklaas and Christmas sales starts extra early this year. Amazon is holding a gigantic sale through its Dutch web store next week with its Prime Day promotion. Experts expect that competitors such as Bol.com and Coolblue will also stunt earlier with discounts.
More and more people need food aid during the corona crisis, the Red Cross notes. In particular, people who earn their money with undeclared work, such as cleaners, get into trouble.
The cabinet may tighten up the corona measures on Tuesday, but tries to prevent a complete lockdown. Insiders confirm this to ANP after reporting from RTL Nieuws and NOS.
Next week, Mark Rutte will be Prime Minister of the Netherlands for exactly ten years. During that period he conducted a number of debates in the House of Representatives. Sometimes spicy, sharp and vicious. But even if a positive outcome seems hopeless from the start, he still manages to placate, confuse or surprise his opponents after all these years. How does he do this?
It is "not responsible" to implement the emergency law to ensure that Unilever remains in the Netherlands, the Council of State has ruled. But initiator Bart Snels (GroenLinks) is hopeful that the law will make it anyway.
The Farmers for Neighbors project will be a structural poverty facility. Approximately 80,000 city pass holders in Amsterdam are now entitled to cheap fruit and vegetable packages from local farmers in Flevoland.
A Limburg company that fired an employee because she was not always present ten minutes before the start of her work has been reprimanded by the subdistrict court. If it is so important for employees to be present earlier, the judge says the company should also pay for it.
A further relaxation of the corona measures is not possible for the time being. In addition, it must be investigated whether the Christmas holidays can be extended at all schools. The Outbreak Management Team writes this in an advice to the cabinet, sources report to the political editors of RTL Nieuws.
