In practice, we are increasingly seeing cases where employees with fixed-term contracts are offered a fixed-term extension at the end of their contract, only to turn it down and go to the Employment Service to claim unemployment benefits again. However, the legislation also imposes an obligation to pay a severance payment at the end of fixed-term contracts, which, as well as causing us additional financial burdens, seems to us to be completely absurd, since it is a predetermined shorter period of need for work for which an appropriate contract is concluded with an agreed amount of pay.
Proposal: Reconsider the rationale and purpose of severance payments for fixed-term work and establish communication between the Employment Service and employers in cases of refusal to extend work and, consequently, to claim unemployment benefits.