Question about unemployment benefits and contracts? Get free advice

Questioner

Hello My contract expires in December and I should get a permanent contract. I currently work 30 hours a week and after December 1st I can get a permanent contract but for 18 hours a week. Am I entitled to unemployment benefits for the remaining 12 hours?

Lawyer

Yes, you are entitled to unemployment benefits if you lose more than 5 hours per week. The employer must take the initiative and there may be no urgent reason. In your case, these conditions are met. So you can apply for unemployment benefits. You know at this point that you will be partially unemployed. |That means that from now on you must make serious efforts to find other, alternative work.

Questioner

Thank you. And no, that is not certain yet, I will only hear at the end of October whether it will definitely be 18 hours, because someone will be redundant and that is what it depends on. If that does not happen, I can keep a contract of 30, so I still have to wait for that, but 18 hours is certain that I will keep it.

Lawyer

In the context of the WW you should already apply for jobs. If you do not do this and you get an 18-hour contract, you will have a problem with the UWV