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Shareholders' Agreement vs. Articles of Association: many benefits!
Entrepreneurship
August 21, 2019
A shareholders' agreement and the articles of association both regulate the rules of the game within a private limited company, but they complement each other: the articles of association are legally mandatory, public, and can only be amended through a notary,...
3 legal considerations when writing product descriptions
Legal Affairs
August 19, 2019
Product descriptions are legally binding: together with the photos and specifications, they constitute the offer on which a customer may rely. Anyone who promises or shows something that deviates from what is delivered...
No ban on strike-breakers among own staff at other branch
Employment Matters
15 August 2019
The prohibition against strike-breaking does not apply when you deploy your own staff from another branch to take over the work of striking employees. The prohibition under the Waadi focuses on...
Website administrator is responsible for the like button
Privacy
August 14, 2019
Yes, as a website administrator, you are jointly responsible for the personal data collected and forwarded via a Facebook Like button. The European Court of Justice ruled in the Fashion ID case (July 29...
4 tips for refusing the leave request
Employment Matters
12 August 2019
As an employer, you cannot simply refuse a holiday request. In principle, you schedule the holiday according to the employee's wishes. You can only refuse if, within two weeks...
Dysfunctional employee: no well-defined implementation of improvement plan
Employment Matters
July 18, 2019
Dismissing an employee for poor performance is only possible if you have first offered them a serious and realistic chance to improve. The law does not prescribe exactly what such an improvement plan looks like...
Terminating an employment contract: what is the last day?
Employment Matters
17 July 2019
As a rule, the last day of the employment contract is the day before the notice takes effect. If you give notice “effective March 1” or “as of March 1”, then the last...
Online work platform: employment or mediation?
Legal Affairs
July 15, 2019
Whether an online work platform constitutes employment (an employment or temporary employment contract) or is merely mediation does not depend on what is stated in the user agreement, but on how the collaboration works in practice...
For what duration are you allowed to tacitly renew a contract?
Contracts
July 11, 2019
For business contracts, there is no fixed statutory maximum term for which you may tacitly renew. A tacit renewal clause is valid in principle, but a judge may annul it if the renewal term...
Commercial rent arrears: how do you intervene?
Legal Affairs
July 10, 2019
In the event of rent arrears for commercial premises, you intervene via a fixed route: first send a written demand with a clear payment deadline, and if payment is not received, then start proceedings at...