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Questioner

Labor law. ir/Madam I have a contract from January 1 to December 31, 2015 for 40 hours. My employer forgot to send a notice letter and sends me the following text and combination with a contract dated December 31, 2015. dd 25-1-2016 Mid-late November 2015 we discussed whether or not to continue your contract. We indicated that we wanted to continue under the same conditions (annual contract). Formally, you must then sign a contract together for a fixed period of 12 months. Attached is that contract. In the meantime, you have indicated that after the discussed and agreed targets for 2016, you still want something else externally. We find that unfortunate but respect your choice, we can't do otherwise. For now, the work is the work and we trust that you will be motivated to do a good job for ......... At the same time, you indicate that you are going to apply for jobs. Greeting, So the request is to sign the contract. However, I have indicated that I am going to apply and asked for a settlement so that we can part ways in an amicable manner. Now, however, they are hammering on signing this contract. Am I shooting myself in the foot if I sign this with today's date? After all, it is still too late to give notice Thank you very much

Lawyer

About the termination period. According to BW 7 668 section 1, a term of one month applies for the end date of the contract, under penalty of a fine. By consulting, your employer meets the minimum requirement. About the offer the employer makes to you. When you sign, the contract is legally valid. You are then in principle bound until the end date. If you have a lawyer or employer record that it can be terminated earlier, you can calmly go to another job.

Questioner

Dear Wijnand, Thank you very much for your message. So suppose they make a new contract for 3 months (January 1 - March 31) then that is also sufficient for UWV. I have an 8 hour contract elsewhere that I want to expand to 32 hours but this takes some time Thanks