In 2017 and 2018, various fines were imposed by the Minister of Medical Care on the operator of this website (“Dokteronline”), located in Curaçao, for (1) offering without a license so-called UR and UA medicines and advertising such medicines, as well as (2) selling medicines online to Dutch consumers, while it does not have the mandatory EU logo for the online sale of medicines.
read moreWhen requesting the advice of the Works Council pursuant to the Dutch Works Council Act an overview must be provided of (a) the consequences of the intended decision for the employees and (b) the social measures to be taken in this respect.
read moreOn 14 September 2021 the Dutch competition authorities (ACM) imposed a fine of almost 40 million euros on Samsung Electronics Benelux B.V. (Samsung). In the opinion of the ACM, Samsung exerted undue influence on the online sales prices of televisions of seven retailers from January 2013 to December 2018.
read moreThe Unfair Commercial Practices in Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Act implements a European directive on this subject and will take effect on 1 November 2021. The purpose of the Act is to strengthen the position of the farmer in the chain.
The law focuses on companies that are active in the agricultural and food supply chain.
On 14 June 2021, the SER presented an ‘advisory report on the labour market’ jointly drawn up by employers’ and employees’ organisations. It is expected that this advice will lead to important adjustments of labour legislation.
read moreEmployee participation: right to consent to travel expenses, right of appeal by works council in case of new facts and circumstances and exclusion of trade unions
Recently, a number of judgements have been published that may be of interest to those involved in employee participation. It concerns the following:
Recently, the French courts imposed a fine of no less than EUR 1 million on IKEA for spying on (prospective) employees.
More and more people have received an invitation from the government to be vaccinated against corona.
Last month the Bavarian supervisory authority (“BayLDA”) ruled that the use of Mailchimp for sending e-mail newsletters by a German publisher is in breach of the AVG.
read moreSER is updating the standard regulations for works councils.
read moreThe minimum implementation period of at least 2 months, i.e. the period between the date of publication and the date of entry into force, has not been respected.
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