NL Jobs Fires Worker, Files Police Report After Video Shows Beating in Company Car
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Updated · NL Times · Jul 10
NL Jobs Fires Worker, Files Police Report After Video Shows Beating in Company Car
1 articles · Updated · NL Times · Jul 10
Summary
NL Jobs summarily dismissed a male employee and filed a domestic-violence police report after viral footage showed him severely beating a woman in a branded company car.
Sunday's assault happened in Schagen, Noord-Holland, where a bystander recorded the video showing the man punching the woman, dragging her back into the car and continuing the attack.
The agency told AD the pair are a Romanian couple who had worked for NL Jobs for a long time, and said it had seen no earlier warning signs of domestic violence.
NL Jobs said the violence occurred outside working hours and in the private sphere, but called the conduct incompatible with the company's norms and values.
The case also exposed a practical hurdle for the employer: the spokesperson said the woman did not want to file a complaint and both employees reacted nonchalantly when confronted with the footage.