Netherlands supreme court hands down two important rulings for road transport workers

The Netherlands supreme court has broken a ruling by the court of appeal that had previously ruled that Dutch wages were not applicable to Hungarian truck drivers working in and from the Netherlands. The drivers have Hungarian contracts and salaries but they do not work in Hungary. They do not transport goods in or out of Hungary but in and out of the Netherlands. The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) welcomes the ruling from the supreme court as good news for the drivers and good news for the entire sector and a welcome clarification of the rules. The case will now return to the court of appeal to deal with this law.