Personnel

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Work and employment agreement

Here, you can find all information about your employment agreement, salary, working week and holidays, a special savings scheme and the pension scheme.

Employment agreement and salary

On commencement of employment, FOM enters into a written employment agreement with the employee.
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Working week and holidays

In principle FOM has a 40-hour working week. The employee has the right to accumulate hours of leave, and there are 23 days of recreation leave per annum. In addition to these, there are two compulsory extra free days a year.
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Saving scheme and course of life scheme

Every year you will have to decide whether you will partake in the saving scheme (spaarloon) or the course of life scheme (levensloopregeling). To partake in both arrangements during one year is impossible.
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Pension scheme

At the commencement of employment the employee is automatically admitted to the ABP Pension Scheme.
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Unemployment regulation for research institutes

If you become unemployed you may apply for unemployment benefit. The UWV (the body that implements employee insurance schemes) implements the unemployment act (WW) for FOM. The UWV evaluates entitlement to this and records its decision. The UWV pays the unemployment benefit to you and then claims the benefit from FOM.
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