{"id":1286,"date":"2022-11-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/slapers-en-semi-diepslapers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:34:23","slug":"light-sleepers-and-semi-deep-sleepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/slapers-en-semi-diepslapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Light sleepers and (semi-)deep sleepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/deeplink.rechtspraak.nl\/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2022:1575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court<\/a> has recently decided that the compensation for the transition allowance in the event of the dismissal of \u2018sleeping\u2019 employees also applies to \u2018semi-sleeping\u2019 employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dormant employment contract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are referring to what is known as a \u2018dormant employment contract\u2019. This applies to employees who are on long-term sick leave and, as a result, are no longer working for their employer. After two years, the employer\u2019s obligation to continue paying the sick employee\u2019s wages ceases (if the employer has not fulfilled all their reintegration obligations during the two-year period, the period of continued salary payment may be extended).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, if the employer dismisses this employee, the employer is liable to pay the transition allowance. To avoid this, many employers kept these employees, who were unable to work, on their books; but as the employee is no longer working and the employer is no longer paying a salary, this is referred to as a \u2018dormant employment relationship\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Compensation scheme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legislator considers the existence of these dormant employment contracts to be undesirable. That is why the legislator has introduced the compensation scheme, which we describe in our article <a href=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/nieuws\/transition-payment-for-dormant-employment-contracts-lower-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transition allowance for dormant employment contracts lower in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(Semi-)light sleepers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Supreme Court has now ruled that this compensation scheme also applies in the event of the termination of employment of (semi-)deep-sleepers and that these employees are therefore also entitled to the transition payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Deep sleepers\u2019 are employees whose employment contract had already become dormant before 1 July 2015 (the employer\u2019s obligation to continue paying wages ended before 1 July 2015). Semi-inactive employees are those who became unfit for work before 1 July 2015, but whose employment relationship became inactive after 30 June 2015.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De Hoge Raad heeft onlangs beslist dat de compensatie van de transitievergoeding bij ontslag van slapers ook geldt voor (semi-)diepslapers. Slapend dienstverband We hebben het over een zogenaamd slapend dienstverband. Dit betreft werknemers die langdurig arbeidsongeschikt zijn en in verband daarmee niet meer voor hun werkgever werken. Na 2 jaar stopt de op de werkgever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}