Legal guides
Practical guides to Dutch law, arranged by area of law: from employment and corporate law to family law, immigration, criminal law and real estate. Written by the lawyers of Law & More in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.
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Copying general terms and conditions: the legal risks in the Netherlands
Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky under Dutch law on three separate grounds: copyright, unlawful act and the validity of the terms themselves. The exception is short standard phrasing, which is too generic for copyright
An employer may only stop the wages of a sick employee if the employee fails
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An employer may not build a summary dismissal on the covert analysis of an employee’s
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No, the operator of a closed system is not free to charge what it likes,
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Poor performance is not an urgent cause for summary dismissal under Dutch employment law. An
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Owning or trading cryptocurrency is not a criminal offence in the Netherlands; criminal law comes
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Your employer may only prohibit or restrict work you do for others outside your working
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An NVWA inspection becomes a criminal case when the violation is serious, intentional or repeated,
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