To terminate the employment contract, the legal provisions regarding termination of employment contracts will have to be complied with. This can have fairly important consequences. For instance, the employee must be notified, while a notification period must be observed. It sounds complicated. It may seem complicated to the uninitiated, but it is neither Byzantine nor obstructing.
Procedures are clear cut, and the necessary paperwork at different agencies moves quickly.
But there is no denying that employers need to stay informed about such issues as benefits, vacation periods and vacation pay, pensions, insurance, and compliance with social security rules and regulations. The Treaty that founded the European Union in 1957 already included several important principles regarding social policy and employment law in Europe. The consequent regulations consisted of several directives concerning social policy, like the directive regarding collective dismissal and the directive regarding equal treatment of men and women. Especially the field of equal treatment of men and women, in specific equal remuneration and pensions, is widely covered by fairly comprehensive case law. Furthermore, the European treaty includes the principle of freedom of movement of European employees within the European Union.