On Thursday 10 January the annual Meijers prizes were awarded for the best published article, of each faculty research programme, written by Assistant Professors or other academic staff members. The winners received a certificate and a sum of money to spend on research.

When an employee returns from an area considered to be a corona risk, can their employer require them to have a corona test? This is a complicated issue if you consider labour law and legislation in relation to privacy of employees. However in some cases Barend Barentsen, Professor of Labour Law, believes…

On 28 August 2024, Lieke Beekers won the Young Economist Award 2024.

Marike Knoef has won an award on the 34th Award Ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC).

Every other year, the Fédération Internationale pour le Droit Européen (FIDE) organises an international congress focusing on three topics in the field of EU law. This year’s congress took place from 31 May to 3 June in Sofia, Bulgaria. Gerrard Boot, Professor of Labour Law, acted as rapporteur during…

The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities) has appointed Koen Caminada, Professor of Empirical Analysis of Tax and Social Policy, as a member.

The Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) has reappointed Professor Koen Caminada as Academic Partner for the sector Public Finance, and specifically Government Finance, as of 1 January 2017.

As of 1 January 2024, Gerrard Boot, Professor of Employment Law, has been appointed to act as deputy justice in the Central Appeals Tribunal.

As of 1 October 2024, Professor Gerrard Boot, Senior Justice at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal, will transfer to the Central Appeals Tribunal. He has already been a Deputy Justice at the Tribunal for some time now.

Dutch households, especially those on middle and high incomes, pay billions of euros more in tax than promised in election manifestos. Companies, on the other hand, generally pay less tax than initially announced. These are the conclusions reached by Wilmar Bolhuis, PhD student at Leiden University.…

The research conducted by Tilburg University and Leiden University on the relationship between aggression among prisoners and the strictness of the prison regime has received much attention in the national media.

On 22 September, the Social Justice Expertise Center and the Dutch Association on Labor Rights (VVA) brought together eighty (Dutch) labor law lawyers to discuss the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and fundamental labor rights.

Due to technological change, jobs and professions are constantly changing. For instance, it has long been known that some jobs are becoming redundant due to automation. Digitalisation and the rise of artificial intelligence are more recent developments that affect the labour market.

Master's students in labour law Just Bakker and Tess van der Putten are to participate in the prestigious Hugo Sinzheimer Moot Court Competition. This EU Labour Law competition will take place in Vienna from 20 to 23 June 2024.

USMCA (North American Free Trade Agreement) is the successor to NAFTA – a free trade zone covering Canada, the United States and Mexico. This Agreement includes a new procedure to ensure compliance with fundamental labour rights.

The annual conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ) will be held this year in Amsterdam. From 9 to 11 June Labour Court judges from various European countries will gather at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal. Professor G.C. Boot, justice of that court and Professor of Labour…

Meerdere kranten schrijven over een onderzoek van Wimar Bolhuis naar de Nederlandse belastingopbrengsten.

SEO Amsterdam Economics and Leiden University’s Company Law department and Labour Law and Social Security department are to conduct an implementation assessment on the Dutch Whistleblower Protection Act (Wkb) on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

At the beginning of July, a committee appointed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) presented its report 'Social Safety in Dutch Academia. From Paper to Practice', to the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science. The committee was chaired by Professor Naomi Ellemers…

Wat betekent belastinghervorming in de VS? Hoe groot is de invloed van belastingontwijkende multinationals op belastingconcurrentie in ontwikkelde en ontwikkelingslanden? En wat zijn de problemen met belastinguitgaven? Op 7 november vindt een GLOBTAXGOV-T20-seminar plaats op de Campus Den Haag van de…

A civil servant employed by the municipality of The Hague was cause for discussion after taking part in an Extinction Rebellion protest. Only under additional conditions could the employee in question stay on at the municipality. She decided to resign. According to Barend Barentsen, Professor of Labour…

On Thursday 28 September, the Committee on Social Minimum, of which Koen Caminada is a member, presented its second report to outgoing minister for poverty policy in the Netherlands, Carola Schouten. The Committee was established by the minister at the request of the House of Representatives.

Many employers are unaware that work-related accidents must be reported immediately to the Netherlands Labour Authority (NLA) and therefore they neglect to do so. Therefore, there is often no investigation into the cause of an accident. The NLA is aware of only half of the number of work-related accidents…

Olaf van Vliet is Extraordinary Professor of Comparative Welfare State Analysis at the Economics department and the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University. ‘From an electoral point of view, it is much more interesting to do things for people aged 66 and upward than it is for people…

This week the European Court of Justice ruled that companies in the European Union as of now have to register the amount of hours their employees work. Member States will be responsible for ensuring employers establish such registration systems.

The conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ) took place in Leiden from 8 to 10 June 2023. The EALCJ is an association of judges from all EU countries, which provides its members with a forum to exchange knowledge on (European) labour law and its application in the different…

Labour law experts have called on the Dutch government to review the bill for the Dutch Assessment of Employment Relationships and Legal Presumption (Clarification) Act (‘VBAR’). Experts consider this legislative proposal, which aims to clarify the criteria for assessing employment relationships, as…

Surya Tjandra has been appointed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as Deputy Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister.

As part of the events to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Labour Organization, the Department of Labour Law of Leiden University has organized a film evening together with Kijkhuis cinema in Leiden.

On 21 June, the Labour Law and Social Security department and study association SLN hosted the seventh Max Rood Moot Court competition. The morning session involved teams from various universities arguing labour law cases in the preliminary round. The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) team and Groningen…

Barend Barentsen, Professor of Labour Law, recently spoke at a meeting of experts in Amsterdam on the future of the Dutch incapacity benefit system.

Economists are warning for a contraction of the economy during the second half of this year. The United States are already facing a ‘technical recession’: two successive quarters of economic contraction. A recession can lead to a freeze in recruitment and even redundancies. Will employers take precautionary…

The cultural sector, shut down by the corona pandemic, must urgently look for new ways to generate income.

International research agency Mercer has once again named the Dutch pension system the best in the world. Denmark comes second, and third place is for Australia.

When it comes to wealth distribution in the Netherlands, you often hear that there is a huge gap. Is that true? And is this gap also widening, as is often claimed?

The strikes by Dutch rail operator ProRail are not predicted to end any time soon, and that will cause considerable inconvenience for travellers. ‘They may have already reached the limits of what’s allowed,’ says Barend Barentsen, Professor of Labour Law, in Dutch daily newspaper ‘de Volkskrant’.

The fact that sexual harassment in the workplace is a persistent problem became painfully clear again last year, especially after the widely watched ‘Boos’ broadcast on Dutch television. In June, the Supreme Court in the Netherlands settled a matter related to employment law: sexual harassment does…

From 8 to 10 September 2022, Yvonne Erkens and Gerrard Boot attended a conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ). At the invitation of the Greek representative, the conference was held on Hydra. The EALCJ is an association of judges from all Member States of the European…

The research report by the independent committee on the future of the work disability system in the Netherlands ('Onafhankelijke Commissie Toekomst Arbeidsongeschiktheidsstelsel' (Octas)) was published this week. While the number of people unable to work has dropped considerably, the system is still…

Ralph Keuning, the former director of Museum de Fundatie, a museum for the visual arts in Zwolle, stepped down in 2022 following complaints about authoritarian leadership. On top of that, an independent investigation has shown that he received almost €200,000 from the struggling museum after his departure.…

The new postgraduate course in Labour Law is set to be launched this September! For many years, it was a fantastic course for anyone wanting to enhance their knowledge following several years of practical experience. We’re delighted with the updated programme and teaching staff, who include top legal…

All of society is having to deal with the effects of staff shortages. Hospitals are unable to fill their duty rosters, primary schools are having to close their doors for one day per week, and trains are being cancelled on a regular basis. But why is that exactly? Professor of Economics Olaf van Vliet…

Veel arbeidsongeschikten kregen jarenlang te veel of juist te weinig uitkering, omdat er fouten zijn gemaakt bij de berekening van het loon waarop de uitkering is gebaseerd. Barend Barentsen, hoogleraar Sociaal Recht, zegt op BNR radio, dat hij niet helemaal begrijpt hoe het zo fout heeft kunnen gaan…

What would happen if there were fewer migrant workers in the Netherlands? Olaf van Vliet, Professor of Economics, discussed this question on Dutch news site NU.nl.

The Dutch cabinet wants to stop organisations from using zzp’ers (self-employed professionals) for work that is deemed to be embedded in the organisation. The only exception would be when a person explicitly meets certain criteria for entrepreneurs.

Uit onderzoek van het NRC blijkt dat het salaris van oud-directielid Van Hove, van het inmiddels wegens grensoverschrijdend gedrag op de werkvloer in opspraak geraakte theatergezelschap ITA, bij menigeen de wenkbrauwen doet fronsen. Gerrard Boot, hoogleraar arbeidsrecht, spreekt zich over deze salariskwestie…

De nieuwe wet Verduidelijking beoordeling arbeidsrelaties en rechtsvermoeden (Vebar) moet duidelijk maken, wanneer iemand als echte zzp’er wordt beschouwd of als werknemer. Stefan Sagel, hoogleraar arbeidsrecht, schreef een opiniestuk over dit onderwerp in de Telegraaf.

The consequences of social tendencies for the legislation and institutions in the fields of social security, the labor market policy and pension reform are examined in this multdisciplinary research program..

The Dutch Tax and Customs Authority is planning to start enforcing income tax and contribution obligations again following a moratorium lasting several years. The tax authority is doing this in a move to combat sham self-employment; a dossier that continues to be a huge obstacle for the Dutch House…

Jamie Korporaal and Fieke Weber, teaching staff at the Department of Labour Law and Social Security, recently published an item in the ‘Tijdschrift voor de Procespraktijk’. The journal item entitled ‘Kort en Bondig: Arbeidsrecht’ (‘Short and Sweet: Employment Law’) informs readers of rulings passed…