If an employee is dismissed on financial or production-related grounds, and the employer needs new employees within four months of termination of the employment contract for the same or similar work as previously performed by the dismissed employee, the employer is obliged to reemploy the employee, provided that the employee is registered as a job seeker with the public employment services. The job must be specifically offered to the dismissed, unemployed employee. If the employment relationship had lasted for 12 years or more prior to its termination, the duration of the reemployment obligation is six months.

The law is generally applicable on all dismissals based on financial or production-related grounds.