Labour Law & HR in the Netherlands (Learning Path, in English)

What is so different about Dutch employment law?

Are you a non-Dutch speaking manager or HR professional based or with activities in the Netherlands? And is Dutch labour law puzzling you? Then our learning path is for you.

We offer seven workshops that can be followed as stand-alone one-day workshops, and which together form the the Learning path Dutch labour law and HRM for contemporary management.

As a non-Dutch speaking manager or HR professional working for an international company (also) based in the Netherlands you know well what to do in your own field of expertise, but you may experience challenges in the field of Dutch labour law and personnel management in the context of Dutch labour relations. Or you are looking for a ‘refresher’, in view of all the current and coming changes in Dutch labour law and HR practices.

In addition, you and your organization may have started to march towards contemporary views on leadership and organization, with attention to the autonomy of employees and teams and the value of people above that of the system.

At the same time, you have to work with HR instruments and approaches that are sometimes largely based on traditional HR policy. You have to deal with the rules of Dutch labour law and a possibly applicable collective agreement, which often are at least slightly at odds with contemporary approaches – and sometimes even go against them.

You need insights into how you can deploy both traditional and contemporary HR instruments to the challenges for yourself and for your organization. You wish to do this in a small group setting that allows for enough individual attention and where solutions may be provided for the cases that you have.

Develop your knowledge by following the entire suite of seven modules as one learning path, or any of the seven modules as a separate workshop. See below for more details.

We have structured the workshops in a tailormade incompany learning path. Please contact us to discuss your needs and we will send you a proposal.

Stand-alone workshops

We are extremely pleased to share that the feedback and response to the ‘Introduction to Dutch Labour Law & HRM’ continues to be very positive.

We have included an ‘advanced’ workshop that focuses on contemporary HR philosophies, instruments & practices that are widespread or getting popular in the Netherlands: ‘Contemporary HR in the Netherlands (Advanced)’.

Also, we have introduced ‘deep dive’ workshops that focus on specifics of various topics, looking at both the labour law side and the practical HR-side. These ‘deep dive’ workshops include:

• Illness and reintegration
• Performance Management, incl. file building
• Organizational change / reorganization
• Labour relations (Works Council and trade unions)
• Flexible labour relations.

Additionally, we offer these three one-day workshops:

• The Good Employer 
• HRM in transition
• If you have or aim to have HR-responsibilities that go beyond the Netherlands, it might be useful to participate in: Global Labour Laws Western European countries & USA.