Insights

Last Friday, 18 June, the Draft Opinion on Socio-Economic Policy 2021-2025 , which had been presented by the Social and Economic Council (SER) on 2 June 2021, was adopted by the SER council meeting...

The impact of the COVID pandemic on working arrangements has meant that employers are increasingly likely to have staff working remotely. Van Benthem & Keulen has worked together with best friend (UK)...

We already discussed the new Dutch Remote Betting and Gaming Act ( Wet kansspelen op afstand) earlier. Expectations were high, especially among the sports associations, who had hoped that the act...

123Wonen, a franchiser, terminated the franchise agreement with one of its franchisees and subsequently initiated interim relief proceedings against it demanding performance of the non-compete and non...

The amount of astonishing case law directly related to coronavirus politics is gradually increasing. The best known example is the interim relief judgment regarding the curfew (which was subsequently...

In November 2017 Deliveroo decided to offer its food delivery workers – which Deliveroo calls riders - agreements for services instead of employment agreements. That started a debate on whether the...

The District Court of North Holland recently issued a decision in interim relief proceedings in a case in which two daughters had claimed access to a care home in order to visit their mother who...

Implementation of the Directive with regard to cross-border distribution of collective investment undertakings (the ‘Directive’) is taking shape. Currently, a consultation on the implementing act...

The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) of 14 January 2021 had been eagerly awaited. In this judgment, the CJEU found that not submitting observations may not impede...

Although the Netherlands was one of the last countries in the race to administer the first vaccinations, the programme is now underway and a large number of care workers has been vaccinated. The vast...

On 24 December 2020, the European Union and the United Kingdom (‘UK’) reached an agreement on the " UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement " (‘Trade Agreement’) which entered into force on 1 January...

Since 1 July 2019, cyclists have not been allowed to app or phone while riding their bikes. Nor may they simply hold a mobile phone in their hand. This can result in a criminal fine of € 95.00. And...