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Van Doorne’s New Employment Termination Law seminar
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Recently, Van Doorne organized a seminar on new employment termination law, following government minister Donner’s plans to amend the law. His proposals prompted an ambiguous advice rendered by STAR as well as heated public debate. After political pressure, the proposals were withdrawn.
All this prompted us to define as key issue for the seminar whether employment termination law is up for a change.
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SER opinion on strengthening employee participation |
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At government minister Donner’s request, the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER) considered the issue of whether the position of employees in decision-making within and on a Dutch company should be strengthened.
Donner asked the SER to also devote some attention to the option of granting to Works Councils the right to take the floor at shareholders’ meetings, a larger say in mergers and acquisitions and the appointment of executive and non-executive directors, as well as the right of investigation.
All this was to be considered in the context of the position of other stakeholders and a proper governance structure.
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Age discrimination in social plans |
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The Equal Treatment Commission (CGB) recently published its opinion on age discrimination in social plans. The opinion shows that the CGB assesses age discrimination in social plans less strictly than in other cases of age discrimination.
Does this mean that age discrimination in social plans will be allowed from now on?
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Want to keep abreast of things?
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We like to keep our clients updated on developments in all fields of law and the sectors that our firm covers.
That is why, besides this special employment law issue, we also publish a general digital newsletter each two months.
The latter includes contributions from most of our practice and market groups.
» Read our general newsletter
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Although this newsletter was prepared with the
utmost care, it is only intended to highlight
legal issues in general and does not provide
for specific legal advice applicable to a
specific situation. Van Doorne does not accept
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taken as a result of relying on or in any way
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of this information. Readers should always take
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if and when dealing with specific situations.
 
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