AKD’s Employment Law practice group is one of the largest in the Netherlands. The practice group deals with a vast variety of employment and pension law cases for an increasing group of both national and international companies, both in contentions and non-contentions matters.
Extensive expertise in employment law
The lawyers in our practice group are experienced
specialists and strategists in their legal area.The team has a
number of best known employment law lawyers: Eunice Bruyninckx,
Francois Defaix, Ton Gaalman and Paul Klinckhamers, as mentioned in
the European Legal 500 and Chambers. To further enhance the quality
of work and increasing experience and knowledge in its fields, the
Employment Law practice group has also established specialist
groups within its team.
Procedural law
Their comprehensive skills in procedural law enable them
to practise their specialism in the most efficient and effective
manner. In addition to its considerable substantive expertise in
the field of employment law, our practice group also specialises
extensively in (employment) procedural laws.
International issues
Labour relations are becoming increasingly internationally
oriented as a result of globalisation. Since AKD's Employment Law
practice group has extensive experience in this area, you can
always count on top-quality advice and assistance in all your
international employment law problems.
Paul Klinckhamers of AKD’s Employment Law practice group advises Heineken N.V. (Dutch level) as well as Heineken Holding (corporate level) on all aspects of labour law
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Eunice Bruyninckx of AKD’s Employment Law practice group advised and assisted Fortis Investments Management Nederland in the final negotiations on a redundancy package with the Works Councils at ABN AMRO Asset Management and Fortis Investments Management.
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François Defaix of AKD’s Employment Law practice group assisted this newcomer on the liberalised Dutch postal services market in negotiations with the trade unions about a collective bargaining agreement for post distributors.
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Eunice Bruyninckx and Marieke Koster of AKD’s Employment Law practice group have been advising the Royal Bank of Scotland for the past two years on all matters relating to employment law resulting from the legal split-off of part of ABN AMRO to Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Eunice Bruyninckx and Francois Defaix of AKD’s Employment Law practice group revised and redrafted on behalf of McCain the European Works Council protocol.
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