This Peer Review provided the opportunity to analyse the new changes made to the dismissal law in the Netherlands in January 2015 which aims to make the dismissal procedure more activating, fairer and simpler.

The event provided opportunities for exchange with other European countries about how to ensure that dismissal and redundancy procedures promote early activation and enable rapid work-to-work transitions. It discussed how a transition allowance can be put to its most productive use in order to lead to work-to-work instead of work-to-unemployment transitions. It examined how the switch from (long-standing) temporary to permanent contracts can be stimulated and how to prevent employees on successive temporary contracts from suffering disadvantage in terms of access to social protection, training and other benefits

The Peer Review was hosted by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in the Netherlands, as part of the Mutual Learning Programme.