On 10 June, the Dutch House of Representatives approved the bill ‘Modernization and Expansion of the Criminalization of Human Trafficking’. The bill amends the Human Trafficking Article (Article 273f of the Dutch Criminal Code) providing a stronger legal basis to combat human trafficking and severe labour exploitation, which can help to better protect victims. The Dutch trade union FNV and our members FairWork and CoMensha have lobbied for years, to ensure that the conduction of severe labour exploitation would also be criminalised, next to human trafficking, especially as they noted that many severe exploitation cases did not meet the high legal threshold of the human trafficking crime. However, what the legal position of victims of this crime will be in comparison to victims of human trafficking, is not clearly addressed in the law, and still to be seen in practice. Another important part of the bill is that the so-called non-punishment principle, which is now legally established within the human trafficking law.