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2 September 2025
Rutgers & Posch advises the shareholders of PRé Sustainability on the sale of PRé Sustainability to One Click LCA
Rutgers & Posch advises the shareholders of PRé Sustainability, a Dutch software company in the field of sustainability and ecological footprints, on the sale of PRé Sustainability to One Click LCA, a leading Finish software company providing an industrywide platform to accelerate decarbonization for projects products and portfolios. The Rutgers & Posch team consisted of Justus Fortuyn, Laura Dingemans, Milou Bannenberg, Inge de Laat, Annemeijne Zwager and Lot…
Read more >13 August 2025
Rutgers & Posch advises ICT Group
Rutgers & Posch advises ICT Group, a leading European provider of industrial technology software solutions, on the divestment of its majority stake in ICT Healthcare Technology Solutions (ICT HCTS), a company specialized in modern monitoring systems, such as CTG monitoring & telemonitoring, to NEXUS AG. The team of Rutgers & Posch consisted of Bas Mees, Veerle Cordemeijer and Manouk van Riele.
Read more >15 July 2025
NGB Knowledge Event: ‘Employment Law in a Changing World’
On 3 July 2025, the employment law team at Rutgers & Posch had the pleasure of welcoming a large group of legal professionals from the Dutch Association of In-house Lawyers (Nederlands Genootschap van Bedrijfsjuristen; NGB) to our office for one of our annual employment law knowledge sessions. This year’s session focused on the theme ‘Employment Law in a Changing World’. During the event, Dirk Jan Rutgers and Ilaha…
Read more >15 July 2025
Amended Vbar Bill Submitted to the House of Representatives
The long-awaited amended bill on the Clarification of the Assessment of Employment Relationships and Legal Presumption (Verduidelijking beoordeling arbeidsrelaties en rechtsvermoeden; Vbar Bill) was submitted to the House of Representatives on 7 July 2025. In the original proposal from 2023, the legal assessment of the employment relationship consisted of three elements: criteria indicating employee status (W), criteria indicating self-employment within an assignment (Z), and Personal Entrepreneurship (outside the…
Read more >8 July 2025
A brief report of the AIJA Annual Labour Law Conference
From 26 to 28 June, our colleagues Ilaha Muhseni and Claire Huijts participated in the annual Labour Law Seminar of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) in Cambridge. This year, the seminar focused on the theme: “Lifecycle of an entrepreneur – from personal to personnel.” During various panel discussions, labour law specialists from around the world exchanged knowledge and experiences on a wide range of topics related…
Read more >3 July 2025
Fair compensation awarded after employer fails to honor ambiguous promise to extend employment contract
The claimant had been employed by Venture Group B.V. as a Senior Legal Counsel since 1 January 2024, under a fixed-term employment contract for 12 months. The letter of offer stated that, subject to satisfactory performance and positive business prospects, the contract would be converted to a permanent position. On 4 September 2024, a progress meeting took place in which the director expressed a positive attitude towards an…
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