Article 7:679 Dutch Civil Code, Book 7

Paragraph 1

For the employee, urgent reasons within the meaning of Article 677(1) are deemed to be such circumstances as have the result that the employee cannot reasonably be expected to allow the employment contract to continue.

Paragraph 2

Urgent reasons may be deemed to exist, among other things:

1. where the employer assaults, grossly insults or seriously threatens the employee, the employee's family members or household members, or tolerates such acts being committed by one of the employer's household members or subordinates;

2. where the employer induces or attempts to induce the employee, the employee's family members or household members to commit acts contrary to the law or to good morals, or tolerates such inducement or attempted inducement being committed by one of the employer's household members or subordinates;

3. where the employer fails to pay the wages at the time fixed for that purpose;

4. where the employer, if board and lodging have been agreed, does not provide them in a proper manner;

5. where the employer does not provide sufficient work to an employee whose wages have been fixed depending on the results of the work to be performed;

6. where the employer does not provide the stipulated assistance, or does not provide it to a proper extent, to an employee whose wages have been fixed depending on the results of the work to be performed;

7. where the employer in another manner grossly neglects the duties imposed on it by the employment contract;

8. where the employer, without this being implied by the nature of the employment contract, orders the employee, notwithstanding the employee's refusal, to perform work in the business of another employer;

9. where the continuation of the employment contract would entail, for the employee, serious dangers to life, health, morals or good name that were not apparent at the time of the conclusion of the employment contract;

10. where the employee, through illness or other causes and through no fault of his or her own, becomes unable to perform the stipulated work.

Paragraph 3

Stipulations under which the decision as to whether an urgent reason within the meaning of Article 677(1) exists is left to the employee are void.