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?
Last week, about 400 people probably died from the effects of corona. This is evident from the weekly mortality figures from Statistics Netherlands, which compares the number of deaths in a week with the average of the same week in previous years.
The University of Groningen and Hanze University of Applied Sciences have not granted accreditation to the Vindicat student association for the current academic year. The association will not be invited to official occasions until mid-September next year.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is keeping interest rates the same as expected, the central bank announced on Thursday. However, the ECB is expanding its buy-back program to stimulate the eurozone economy, which is hit by the second corona wave.
The European medicine agency EMA is the target of a cyber attack, the organization reports on the website on Wednesday. The agency says it has started an investigation.
The cabinet is earmarking a further 3.7 billion euros for corona support for companies and employees to prevent bankruptcy and unemployment as much as possible. Hard-hit sectors receive additional support, while planned austerity measures are reversed. The support comes on top of the nearly 34 billion euros that the government has already set aside for the corona crisis.
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.
