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If you hire a new employee, you must provide him with detailed information about his terms of employment. Due to the Transparent and Predictable Terms of Employment Directive, this duty to provide information has been expanded: you must provide more information...

If you provide an employee with a company phone, this can be tax-exempt, provided the phone is necessary for business purposes (the necessity criterion within the work-related expenses scheme). Additionally, make agreements regarding private use,...

You may only process special categories of personal data, such as health or sexual orientation, under strict conditions. The European Court of Justice has confirmed that data from which such special categories of data can indirectly...

The Vienna Sales Convention (CISG) applies automatically to international sales contracts for movable goods between commercial parties from contracting countries — even if you choose Dutch law. Whether it is better to exclude it,...

Reduction in working hours days (ATV days) are extra days off that an employee accrues by working more hours than contractually agreed. There are no statutory rules for ATV days, other than for statutory...

A publishing contract establishes how an author and a publisher collaborate in the publication of a book. It regulates, among other things, which exploitation rights the author grants, the remuneration (royalty), the...

If you start your own video platform — for example, to broadcast competitions, recordings, or corporate videos — you process personal data and must comply with the GDPR. Think of account details...

Daytime theft — getting paid while you do little or no work — can cost an employee dearly. In a recent case, it led to dismissal without a severance payment and without...

An employee with debts also affects you as an employer: you face wage garnishment, extra administration, and potential productivity loss. You are obliged to cooperate with a wage garnishment, but...

If you sell something to a minor who does not pay, in many cases you can hold the parents liable. Minors are legally incapable and, in principle, act with the consent of their parents,...