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Next Monday, 1 August 2022, the new Transparent and Predictable Employment Conditions Act enters into force. The purpose of this Act is to make the content of work more transparent and predictable...

On 24 June 2022, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled ( ECLI:NL:HR:2022:950 ) that there is no room for the general rule that sexually transgressive behaviour in a dependency situation, like that between a...

On March 9, 2022, the Overijssel District Court issued a ruling in the case of H.O.D.N. Cottoncounts (“ Cottoncounts”) v. CCG Retail B.V. (“ CCG Retail”) concerning the agreement concluded between the...

On 17 February 2022, the 's-Hertogenbosch Court of Appeal handed down its ruling on sexually transgressive behaviour by a driving instructor toward his students. In this case, the court found that the...

On 10 February 2022, the District Court of East Brabant ruled on a highly topical issue, that of (sexually) transgressive behaviour. It follows from this ruling that it does not always warrant summary...

The Dutch Act on Court Confirmation of Extrajudicial Restructuring Plans ( Wet homologatie onderhands akkoord ) (“CERP”) entered into force on 1 January 2021. It provides struggling businesses with an...

In the Legal Update 'The Dutch Senate approves gender quota for large companies' of 30 September 2021, we wrote about the bill ( wetsvoorstel ) to improve gender diversity on corporate boards that the...

Pre-packs have been keeping the Dutch legislature and case law quite busy in recent years. For some time, the question has been whether, in the case of an insolvency restart prepared by means of a pre...

Introduction Most entrepreneurs will not have escaped noticing the considerable increase in price of many raw materials and construction materials. Over the past few months, newspaper headlines have...

On 11 November 2021, the bill ( Wetsvoorstel) implementing the EU Directive on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union was submitted to the Lower House. The proposed date...

On 28 September 2021, the bill ( Wetsvoorstel ) to improve gender diversity on corporate boards was approved by the Dutch Senate. The new Act aims at improving gender diversity at the top of large...

On 13 September 2021, the Amsterdam District Court ruled that all drivers offering their services through the Uber app in the Netherlands are employees and not, therefore, self-employed contractors...