Dutch social partners demand portability veto

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NETHERLANDS - The troubled portability directive has come under fire yet again; this time the Dutch employer and labour foundations have asked their government to formally reject it.

The two organisations recently wrote to social affairs minister Aart Jan de Geus asking him to veto the embryonic legislation, and they called on other European countries to do the same. Gerard ...

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