Advice: Employer Must Continue to Pay Wages During the Second Year of Illness

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Officials from several ministries, the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV), the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), and the Social and Economic Council (SCP) say there is an urgent need to reform the disability insurance system in the short term. However, they urge politicians to maintain the obligation for employers to continue paying wages for two years during illness. In the report "Working on the WIA towards a system that work…