| 09:00 |
Registration and coffee
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| 09:30 |
An overview of the employment law framework in The Netherlands
- Setting the scene: The Netherlands’ labour market and legal framework
- What is so different about Dutch employment law?
- Current trends and developments
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| 10:00 |
Hiring employees, background screening and contracts of employment
- Flexibility in contracts of employment; definite or indefinite terms; on call contracts
- Practical advice on drafting terms and conditions of employment
- An update on sick pay, holiday entitlement and other typical contractual benefits
- Restrictive covenants
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| 11:15 |
Coffee
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| 11:30 |
Day to day employee management
- Working Time
- Absence and performance issues
- Equal treatment
- Discipline and grievances: key differences to the position in the UK
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| 12:30 |
Lunch
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| 13:30 |
Employee Representation
- Working with the works council: the relationship, pre-conditions and participation rights
- Understanding how the works council becomes involved in personnel matters: preparing your HR team
- Involvement of Unions
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| 14:30 |
Termination of employment
- Ways of terminating employment
- Protection from dismissal: employees versus managing directors
- Collective dismissals – key points
- Calculating severance pay
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| 15:30 |
Tea
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| 15:45 |
What’s on the horizon?
- Developments with respect to severance pay and dismissal law
- Future developments in labour law
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| 16:15 |
Questions and answers
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| 16:30 |
End of seminar
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