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Employment law
Our Employment Law Practice Group advises HR departments on employment law matters in the Netherlands, offering a comprehensive range of services designed to help clients maximize their human capital. Our clients include both employers, as well as managing directors and senior employees.
We act for both domestic and international clients across a broad array of industries, including food, retail, shipping, financial services and fashion. As a practice, we do not focus on any particular niche industry or issue – our combined expertise allows us to provide effective, timely advice on everything from cross-border employment to issues relating to works councils for domestic clients.
We focus on providing the highest-quality advice to our clients and partnering with them to meet their needs and objectives as a business. Our international network proves invaluable in allowing us to provide a flexible service, and we pride ourselves on our proactive, partner-led approach.
Our expertise in this area includes:
- Advice on the risk of reclassification of service contracts as employment contracts
- Company transitions and transfers of undertaking
- Employment and (international) assignment contracts
- Employment law aspects of mergers and acquisitions
- Employment litigation
- General employment and social security issues
- Industrial relations and Collective Labour Agreements
- International (cross-border) employment issues
- Outsourcing and secondments
- Reorganizations and collective dismissals
- Stock option and other employee incentive plans
- Termination of employment
- Works council and other employee representation matters