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Company should not require staff to be at work earlier

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.

Advice OMT: no relaxation in December, possibly longer Christmas holidays

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.

Also negative savings interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank

If you have more than a quarter of a million in your savings account, you will have to pay negative interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank from 1 March.

Can the Netherlands also start vaccinating in December?

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?

Amsterdam is repentant by corona: from now on only “quality tourists” in the city

Amsterdam hopes to attract a different type of tourist after corona. A new image campaign abroad and measures to control visitor flows, such as a ban on Airbnb and a tax for day trippers, should help.
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Company should not require staff to be at work earlier

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.

Advice OMT: no relaxation in December, possibly longer Christmas holidays

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.

Also negative savings interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank

If you have more than a quarter of a million in your savings account, you will have to pay negative interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank from 1 March.

Can the Netherlands also start vaccinating in December?

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?

I already had corona, do I still need to be vaccinated? And five more pressing vaccine questions

Vaccine number three - that of Oxford and AstraZeneca - also seems to protect against corona quite well, according to new figures. But what exactly do those numbers say? And what if there is a better vaccine soon, can we still 'redo' the vaccination? Three times two pressing questions.

The “green” bus? This is due to corona a little later – about two years, ING thinks

The greening of urban and regional transport is delayed due to the corona outbreak. Because it is uncertain whether and when travelers will return, carriers will not tender for new tenders in which the main role is reserved for the electric bus.

Six months after corona infection, antibodies are still present in 9 out of 10 people

Nine out of ten people who have been infected with the corona virus still have antibodies against the virus in their blood six months later. These become stronger over time, so that fewer antibodies are needed for the same effect.

Cabinet weighs vaccination requirement for access to buildings and events: “Must think this through deeply”

Cannot access "certain occasions" without being vaccinated against the coronavirus. The cabinet will "think deeply through this possibility," said Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Wednesday during the debate in the Lower House on the corona crisis.

Hundreds of millions of login details are on the street, including from Dutch sites

More than 226 million login details of 23,000 websites are on the street. That reports the Australian security researcher Troy Hunt. Of the websites, 155 have a domain name ending in .nl.

Cabinet: mosques and weekend schools must disclose foreign money flows

Mayors and the Public Prosecution Service will have the right to request access to the funding of institutions that receive money from outside the European Union. Supervision of foreign money flows, for example to the organizations behind mosques, should prevent institutions from receiving this money to incite hatred, discrimination or intolerance.

NS has dropped benefits for seniors against advice

The Dutch Railways see no reason to renew the validity of Keuzedagen. These are tickets that allow people over 60 to travel unlimited. The fact that it is estimated that tens of thousands of seniors have followed the advice of the RIVM and avoided public transport does not detract from this, according to the Dutch Railways (NS) to the website Treinreiziger.nl.

Amsterdam is repentant by corona: from now on only “quality tourists” in the city

Amsterdam hopes to attract a different type of tourist after corona. A new image campaign abroad and measures to control visitor flows, such as a ban on Airbnb and a tax for day trippers, should help.
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Company should not require staff to be at work earlier

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.

Advice OMT: no relaxation in December, possibly longer Christmas holidays

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.

Also negative savings interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank

If you have more than a quarter of a million in your savings account, you will have to pay negative interest at SNS, ASN and Regiobank from 1 March.
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