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Effective employment participation facilitates the timely involvement of employees, clients and students in important decision-making. This leads to a sense that employment participation is taken seriously, and helps to create the necessary support for decisions and the management.

And this starts right away upon the establishment of employment participation. Because customisation is possible, you can set up employment participation to suit your organisation’s specific needs. Clear agreements about communication and collaboration are essential to this. Trust and confidentiality combine with openness and commitment, based on individual roles and responsibilities.

Focus areas

  • Establishment of employment participation;
  • Integrated employment participation;
  • Consultation and information;
  • Right to prior consultation;
  • Right of consent;
  • Negotiation;
  • Reorganisation and restructuring;
  • Acquisitions and mergers;
  • Effective management and supervision (governance);
  • Labour negotiations by and with the works council;
  • Sustainable employability;
  • Employment participation in the healthcare sector;
  • Employment participation in the government – political primacy;
  • Employment participation in the education sector.

Our approach

Our team guides and advises numerous organisations and employment participation bodies ranging from national and multinational companies to healthcare institutions, and from museums and orchestras to government and educational institutions. Directors, works councils and clients’ councils all have their own ways of implementing employment participation.

We maintain a focus on the greater interest and deploy our negotiation skills to ensure we arrive at the best possible solution together. If necessary, we are also prepared to undertake legal proceedings. We also give regular webinars and training courses on employment participation.

Enquiries

If you have any queries or would like further information, please don’t hesitate to contact one of the specialists on our team!

Partner of Choice

De Clercq Attorneys Notary is one of the top five law firms preferred by works councils in the Netherlands, according to the ORNet Partner of Choice survey conducted among more than 330 works council members. This recognition is based on investments in visibility, lawyers who specialise in works council and employment participation matters, and the sharing of expertise through a variety of channels. The survey assists works council professionals in making procurement decisions in which positive past experiences and alignment with values and corporate culture are decisive factors. Read more