Dutch Work-From-Home Law Killed by Pro-Business, Farmer Parties

The Netherlands ranks fifth globally in the number of remote jobs available.

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A law that would have cemented the right to work from home in the Netherlands was torpedoed in the Dutch senate by farmer and pro-business parties.

The upper house of the Dutch parliament, led by the pro-farmer BBB and the liberal VVD, voted on Tuesday against a motion to establish the legal right to remote working.