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

Recent publications

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.