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
If your employer does not pay your wages on time, you can claim them with
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A notice of default (ingebrekestelling) is a written demand that gives a contracting party who
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There is no single retention period for personnel data. Under the GDPR you may keep
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As an employer, you may keep in the personnel file only the data you need
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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 defamation (smaad), libel or written defamation (smaadschrift) and calumny (laster): defamation
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No, Dutch law does not require every employer to offer a pension scheme, and as
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As an employer in the Netherlands, you must make sure your employees can work safely
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Under Dutch law, most claims become time-barred (verjaard) after five or twenty years. A claim
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A claim (vordering) is your right to a performance from another party: usually payment of
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Under Article 1:266 of the Dutch Civil Code (BW), the district court can terminate a
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