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General Terms and Conditions: Why Copying Them Will Cost You Dearly
Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky on three separate legal grounds, and those risks are cumulative rather than alternatives. First, terms drafted with an original structure and wording enjoy copyright protection under the Dutch Copyright
If the IND rejects your application, the decision is not the end of the matter.
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Companies regularly bring employees from abroad to the Netherlands. Recognition as a sponsor is mandatory
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An association with limited legal capacity – an informal association – is a legal person,
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A resolutive condition in an employment contract is a clause under which the contract ends
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A zero-hours contract is an on-call contract without an agreed number of working hours: the
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Wages that are not paid on time carry consequences that are often larger than the
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A notice of default, the ingebrekestelling, is a written demand giving a contracting party who
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The GDPR sets no table of retention periods. The rule is that personal data may
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An employer must keep records of its employees, and at the same time may only
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Share capital is the equity of a company divided into shares, as laid down in
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A fixed-term employment contract in the Netherlands ends by operation of law on the agreed
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Dutch criminal law distinguishes three offences against reputation. Insult is an expression that serves only
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