The purpose of protection against dismissal is to protect the employee against unjustified dismissal, which is expected to lead to stable employment relationships and job security. In recent years, the concept of employment security has entered the world of policy and science. This article aims to contribute to the field of labour law by investigating the objectives and effects of the Dutch transition payment process in relation to the relatively new notion of employment security. To do so, the ins and outs of the Dutch transition payment process are discussed. We compare and analyse the Dutch dismissal law before and after the introduction of the Work and Security Act (Wet werk en zekerheid (WWZ)) on 1 July 2015. We discuss the (unintended) employer and employee effects of dismissal law reform in the Netherlands and we analyse the objectives of the transition payment in relation to employment security. Based on a large-scale survey of redundant employees we shed light on the question of whether the transition payment is used for the purpose intended by the legislature. This article concludes by discussing the changes to the transition payment and dismissal compensation with the introduction of the new Balanced Labour Market Act (Wet arbeidsmarkt in balans (WAB)) on 1 January 2020. Although the legislature has attributed a clear formal transition function to the transition payment, the transition function is lacking from a substantive law perspective and we conclude that employment security is still in its infancy in Dutch dismissal legislation.

防止解雇的目的是保护员工免遭不正当解雇，这有望带来稳定的雇佣关系和工作保障。近年来，就业保障的概念已进入政策和科学领域。本文旨在通过研究与相对较新的就业保障概念相关的荷兰过渡支付过程的目标和效果，为劳动法领域做出贡献。为此，将讨论荷兰过渡付款流程的来龙去脉。我们比较并分析了《工作和安全法》（Wet werk en zekerheid）出台前后的荷兰解雇法（WWZ））。我们讨论了荷兰解雇法改革对雇主和雇员的影响（意料之外），并分析了与就业保障有关的过渡付款的目标。在对冗余员工进行的大规模调查的基础上，我们阐明了过渡支付是否用于立法机关预期目的的问题。本文最后通过讨论新的《平衡的劳动力市场法案》（Balan中的湿arbeidsmarkt），介绍了过渡付款和解雇补偿的变化 （WAB））。尽管立法机关将过渡支付明确赋予了正式的过渡职能，但从实体法的角度来看，过渡职能缺乏，我们得出的结论是，在荷兰解雇立法中，就业保障仍处于起步阶段。