A great deal has been said and written about the Dutch Work and Security Act (Wet Werk en Zekerheid) (“WWZ”). It was expected that the act would make it harder to dismiss employees, because employers would have to use a restrictive list of ...
In an action brought by the Foundation for Victims of Home Equity Products (GOWP), the Amsterdam Court of Appeal recently ordered ABN AMRO to compensate the damage suffered by victims on account of excessive lending. In this ruling, the Court of ...
If you are the beneficial owner of an interest (or shareholding) of 25% or more in a legal entity, then that interest will soon have to be registered in a new public database. This database will be accessible to civil-law notaries, banks, ...
An employment contract provides quite a lot of employee protection, and if the employment contract is terminated involuntarily, the employer must often provide the employee with a severance payment. These are two reasons why employees find a ...
Many errors are made in employment contracts. In what follows, I will discuss four frequently made errors and I will make some suggestions for avoiding such errors and for strengthening the content of the employment contract.
They arrive out of the blue. Authorities such as the Netherlands Competition Authority, the Tax and Customs Administration, a public prosecutor. Should your employees speak or can they remain silent?
The perspective of company lawyers is influenced by the legal system in which they operate. Internationally, the differences in legal points of view are large. When it comes to Anglo-American practice, the adage ‘bigger is better’ applies to ...
Stichting de Thuiskopie (the Dutch collecting society for private copying levies) and the State of the Netherlands have ended their long-standing dispute about the phasing out of the statutory regulation on home tape levies (thuiskopieregeling). ...