As of 1 July 2017, several amendments to the Working Conditions Act will be implemented. The amendments regulate, among other things, the right of the employee to consult the company doctor about work related health and safety issues (before actually becoming ill), the right of the employee to ask for a second opinion regarding the advice of the company doctor, the right approval of the works council or employee representative body as to the appointment of the occupational health and safety officer, and the obligation for the company and the occupational health and safety service to have a contract in place in which certain specific elements are included, such as the right of the company doctor to visit the workplace and the obligation of the company doctor to have a complaint procedure in place and to report occupational illnesses to the Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases.
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