The services we offer cover the full range of employment law and employee participation. We provide legal advice, we negotiate, we represent our clients in legal proceedings and guide our clients through HR-related changes and restructurings. In addition, we advise clients at strategic level on their HR policies, cooperate with clients in various HR related projects and provide training and courses. Our clients occasionally hire us as interim in-house employment counsels.
We advise our clients on many employment law issues, such as:
- Employment agreements, employee handbooks, regulations
- Employment related conflict
- Termination of employment
- Transfer of undertaking
- Appointment and dismissal of managing directors
- Employee health and working conditions
- Conflicts regarding non-compete clauses, non-solicitation clauses and unlawful competition by former employees
- Restructuring
- Negotiations with workers’ unions and works councils
- Drafting social plans and collective agreements
- International employment law
- Setting up a flexible workforce
- Whistleblower policies
- Privacy at work
- Equal treatment / discrimination
- Working with contractors
We assist both businesses and works councils in employee participation matters, including the setting up of employee participation structures and the training of board or works council members and representing either the business or the works council in legal proceedings. Work we do in this field includes:
- Setting up or changing the employee participation structure
- Establishing works councils and organizing elections
- Drafting and reviewing requests for advice or consent
- Guiding works council or the entrepreneur in negotiations
- Representing works councils or entrepreneurs in court proceedings
In addition to the legal expertise we have to offer, we have a lot of experience in advising businesses at strategic level on the (re)structuring of their organization and on developing, introducing and changing HR policies. Clients regularly engage us on an interim basis to provide inhouse guidance during important HR projects or to temporarily replace inhouse employment counsels or HR officers. We can play a valuable role in change processes, restructurings and in guiding the employment side of take-overs, mergers and in- or outsourcing projects.
Clients have recently engaged us for the following types of projects:
- The implementation of flexible employment terms and conditions
- The introduction of a new performance review system
- Harmonization of employment terms and conditions
- Guiding the employment side of a merger
- The setting up of a flexible work-force
- Combining various business sites into one new site
We like sharing our knowhow and experience with others. We regularly provide training and teach courses, both inhouse with our clients or through certified third parties. We educate HR professionals, works council members, board members, company doctors and other lawyers.
We provide teachers for various programs of training institutes, such as OSR, the Institute for Employment Law and HRM, Lex Lumen and SGBO (Radboud University Medical Centre). We also speak at seminars and conferences.
