Recent Labour Law LLM graduate publishes article
Rose Horstman adapted her master’s thesis and published an article on the impact of an employee’s age in just and equitable compensatory award decisions in dismissal cases.
Rose came up with the idea for this topic while working as a student intern at a law firm. She noticed that very little has been published on the role an employee’s age plays when a compensatory award (known in Dutch as billijke vergoeding) is calculated in dismissal cases. However, in court decisions involving just and equitable compensation, frequent reference is made to an employee’s age. In view of the statutory retirement age which is steadily rising, she was mainly interested in the role the age of older employees plays in compensation requests.
The former master’s student concluded that age certainly plays a role when calculating this compensatory award. In particular, the role of age is clearly apparent when estimating employees’ job opportunities and calculating the remaining time a person could work and the corresponding loss of income.
Rose says that when writing the article which was published by the Dutch Journal for Law and Employment (Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid), she learnt the most from adapting the key parts of her thesis and rewriting these to produce a concise, attractive article for readers.
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