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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
A holding structure is a group of at least two Dutch private limited companies (besloten
- Reading time: 10 min
Salary transparency legislation obliges employers in the Netherlands to give applicants the starting pay or
- Reading time: 5 min
Summary dismissal (ontslag op staande voet) ends an employment contract with immediate effect and is
- Reading time: 6 min
Rehiring a former employee, a boomerang employee, creates a new employment relationship under Dutch law,
- Reading time: 8 min
A supplier code of conduct is binding under Dutch law only if it has become
- Reading time: 5 min
You cannot dismiss an employee for quiet quitting as such: an employee who does exactly
- Reading time: 10 min
An organisation that uses an automated system is liable for the discriminatory outcomes it produces,
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No, you do not have to accept every change to your job, but you cannot
- Reading time: 8 min
Biometric data, such as fingerprints, facial images or voice patterns, is a special category of
- Reading time: 13 min
Under Article 3:15a of the Dutch Civil Code (BW), an electronic signature has the same
- Reading time: 8 min
An AI system cannot be an inventor, neither under Dutch law nor at the European
- Reading time: 9 min
There is no separate metaverse law in the Netherlands. Virtual worlds are governed by ordinary
- Reading time: 7 min
