Advice on Bankruptcy & UWV Issues

Questioner

Suppose a company is about to go bankrupt. Now the director wants to declare the BV bankrupt because of outstanding invoices. After that this good man probably wants to make a fresh start. The employees who still work there will normally be included in the fresh start. But in fact they do not want to work for this person anymore. They already receive part of a month's salary from this man. Next month it is also questionable whether they will receive the entire monthly salary plus the outstanding amount from the month before. This director is also a slave driver, ignores the rules and cheats. The situation now is that you cannot simply refuse a new contract/offer to continue working in the company in order to obtain benefits through the UWV. I can well imagine that these employees no longer want to work for this person. Do these employees still have a chance of receiving benefits through the UWV or should they accept the offer of this slave driver? How will the UWV deal with this if all staff members refuse to continue working for this person? Please advise.

Lawyer

You ask (a lot of) questions in a short story. I will try to answer them all briefly below: 1. when the employer can no longer pay the salary, the UWV can take over. The maximum is 03 months, so make sure you stay within that period; 2. when the employer restarts, then one may refuse the new contract if one has other work. if not, then one may refuse it under certain circumstances. For this, contact with a specialized labor law attorney is necessary. He/she can inform the employees exactly; 3. when the employees act jointly, such an employer must also be tackled; 4. whether this man can restart the company will also depend on the curator. contact with the curator seems to me to be of great importance. Many law firms, including mine, have (walk-in) consultation hours.