Netherlands: Employee Rights/ Labour Relations

Major sporting events like the FIFA World Cup can energize workplaces with team spirit and camaraderie, but they also introduce specific legal risks when enthusiasm crosses into inappropriate behavior. This analysis examines how Belgian, Dutch, and Luxembourg employment laws address workplace harassment and discrimination during high-emotion sporting events, and what proactive measures employers must take to balance festive atmosphere with legal compliance.

The Dutch employment law landscape is undergoing significant transformation, with proposed reforms targeting non-compete clauses, pay transparency requirements, and reintegration obligations for sick employees. Recent court decisions from the International Court of Justice and CJEU are reshaping fundamental workplace rights, including the scope of strike protections and the definition of collective redundancies in workplace relocation scenarios.

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal has ruled that workers operating through the Temper platform are temporary agency employees rather than self-employed contractors, fundamentally challenging the platform's business model and classification practices.

A Rotterdam District Court has submitted a preliminary question to the Supreme Court regarding whether incapacitated employees accrue holiday entitlements during dormant employment periods.

In the Netherlands, employees have the right to request flexible working arrangements, but can employers refuse? A recent court case examined whether an employer could deny a request to work four nine-hour days instead of five...

Op 13 februari 2026 heeft de Hoge Raad prejudiciële vragen beantwoord die van groot belang zijn voor de praktijk van het insolventierecht en het arbeidsrecht.

US fund managers (USFMs) regularly set up an office in Europe to accommodate European deal sourcing, European capital raising and/or to manage their European asset acquisition vehicles.

In the these three episodes, Senior Associate Marianne Parkinson and Associate Olivia Rhys-Evans from our Employment team are joined by Partner Jet Stolk who heads up Houthoff's Employment...

This news item is important for anyone who employs workers on the basis of a so-called flexible employment contract, such as an on-call contract, an agency contract or a temporary employment contract.