In the event of a planned staff reduction, the employer must make a selection of employees who are compared from a social point of view. By law, this selection must be made according to the following criteria:
Length of service with the company,
Age,
Maintenance obligations of the employee and
age or the presence of a (severe) disability.
The employer's specific procedure is to first make a selection of employees who are in the area of the company in which staff must be reduced for operational reasons and then compare them on the basis of the above criteria. To do this, employers often use a points system that assigns certain scores to the individual criteria and determines which employees are most and least worthy of protection based on the total score.