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Zero-hours contracts

The Labour Market Balance Act (WAB) requires employers to provide on-call workers with at least four days' notice (can be reduced to 24 hours by a Collective Labour Agreement) if they are required to work. Once the on-call worker has been notified, if the employer does not subsequently call the employee into work, then the employee must be paid for those hours regardless.

Once the employee has completed 12 consecutive months of service, they must be offered a contract with a specified amount of hours based on the average number of hours worked during the past 12 months. But this does not have to be a permanent contract, it should be a fixed amount of hours. The employer needs to make the offer but the employee is allowed to decline the offer.

Dismissals, termination/severance pay

An employer cannot simply dismiss an employee, they must adhere to strict rules governing dismissal.

An employment agreement for definite period ends by operation of law on the end date as agreed upon. In fixed-term employment agreements of six months or