The Court of Rotterdam has ruled in favour of home care worker Carol Kollmann in her case against the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency, the UWV. The ho...
The Dutch Government would like to allow QR checks at work. Legal experts expect that employees who refuse could be dismissed.
Due to an exception in the law, domestic workers employed by private persons cannot automatially benefit from social security schemes. Home help Carol...
Ms. Kollmann, a home care worker in the Netherlands, is demanding pension and unemployment benefits from the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency (UWV). An...
Can bars, gyms and travel providers refuse customers who have no proof of vaccination? And can an employer dismiss employees who are not vaccinated? R...
Female workers at Tesco Stores, a chain of supermarkets in the UK, brought a case to the European Court of Justice claiming they received unequal pay ...
Two Leiden legal scholars have been awarded funding from the KNAW pilot fund 'Science communication by scientists: Appreciated!'. The fund supports sc...
The Dutch temporary bridging measure for self-employed professionals (known as Tozo) was set up to help Dutch self-employed professionals who are expe...
Recently more than five hundred workers at metal companies in Dutch cities Zwolle and Kampen went on strike. Their aim is better pay and the workers h...
Academic freedom is essential for good scientific practice, but there are limits: scientists and scholars from all domains must always seek a proper b...
An open disagreement about a non-competition clause in the employment contract of a top business manager is a rare occurrence. Both the company and th...
Throughout the world fundamental labour rights in supply chains are being violated. Since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh shook the world, we ca...
In the public debate on the coronavirus, bold assertions from academics, doctors and other medical practitioners are often heard. For example, that th...
When an employee returns from an area considered to be a corona risk, can their employer require them to have a corona test? This is a complicated iss...
USMCA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is the successor to NAFTA – a free trade zone covering Canada, the United States and Mexico. This Agreeme...
