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Can an employer combine multiple incomplete dismissal grounds into one successful dismissal request?<\/p>\n

In this episode of Littler Explains, Jasper Hoffstedde speaks with Dennis Veldhuizen and Wouter Heere about the Dutch Supreme Court\u2019s recent ProFoto judgment, the first Supreme Court ruling on the so-called \u201ccumulation ground\u201d (the I ground).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can an employer combine multiple incomplete dismissal grounds into one successful dismissal request? 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