Employment Law

Employment law for employers.

Employment contracts, staff handbooks, dismissal law, workplace misconduct, integrity issues, pension law, reorganisations, sickness absence processes, statutory severance payments, fair compensation, non-competition clauses, non-solicitation clauses, collective labour agreements (CAO), transfer of undertaking, and dismissal of statutory directors.

How we can help you

Documents and policy

  • Employment contracts and addenda

  • Amendment clauses and post-contractual clauses

  • Regulations, such as staff handbooks and codes of conduct

  • Settlement agreements

  • Privacy documentation in employment relationships

Conflict and termination

  • Building a file in cases of underperformance or culpable conduct

  • Guidance through dismissal processes

  • Negotiating settlement agreements

  • Proceedings before the UWV (Employee Insurance Agency) or the subdistrict court

  • Disputes over pay, illness and reintegration

  • Non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality disputes

  • Escalations between employer and employee

Strategy and organisation

  • Advice on reorganisations

  • Structuring flexible employment relationships

  • Strategic HR advice

  • Assessment of employment law risks

  • Support with the application of collective labour agreements, including scope investigations and personnel matters

  • Advice on the hiring and termination of staff

  • Legal sparring on employment law policy choices, such as the use of mediation

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Point of contact

Bente Brouwer LL.M.

As a corporate lawyer at The Legal Company, Bente supports a wide range of businesses in need of legal assistance.