Wietje De Muinck Keizer

Wietje is a Member of the American Bar Association, the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), the Dutch Association for Privacy Law (VPR – Vereniging voor Privacy Recht) and the Dutch Association for Employment and Labour Law (VvA – Vereniging voor Arbeidsrecht) and was Vice-President and President of the Labour Law Commission of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA) from 2002 to 2005.

Expertise

Employment law

Wietje advises national and international companies and litigates on Dutch employment and labour law issues, in particular:

Wietje has extensive experience in corporate law matters.

Privacy law

Wietje advises national and international companies on privacy in the workplace and data protection, including:

Experience

Wietje de Muinck Keizer started her career in a full-service firm in The Hague in 1990 specializing in international employment, contract, and corporate law. After that she worked in a full-service law  firm in Amsterdam as Head of the Employment Law Department and later also as Managing Partner. She expanded the international employment practice, also with privacy law, in particular closely with the firm’s tax advisors. In 2014, Wietje became one of the founding partners of Doorn & Keizer.

Wietje works at the cutting edge of the law, which she knows profoundly and advises on a wide range of employment and labour topics, or related privacy topics. She never loses sight of the strategy, nor of the details of employment or labour matters. If there is an advantage for the client, she will find it and capitalize on it. Wietje is also very approachable and always keeps an eye on human relations.

Next to her daily practice, she writes, lectures and trains – both in English and Dutch – on employment law and privacy matters. She is a member of the Dutch Bar, a former chairman of the Labour Law Commission of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA), the American Bar Association, the European Employment Lawyers Association, the Privacy Association, and national employment related associations (VvA and VAAA.)

Other activities and Publications

She regularly speaks, lectures and publishes on employment and labour law topics and privacy and data protection law subjects. Her past publications include annual contributions on Dutch labour law to ‘and ‘International Labor & Employment Laws’ of the American Bar Association and “The Littler Mendelson Guide to International Employment and Labor Law”.

She lectures each year about “Misconduct, investigations and privacy at the workplace” at the postgraduate programme of the VU Law Academy of the Law Faculty of the VU University at Amsterdam.

In London and elsewhere, she also teaches Dutch employment and labour law during seminars for groups of international HR managers or special in-house courses for HR or management teams several times a year. Next thereto, she holds several advisory positions.

Registration

Wietje de Muinck Keizer has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister): employment law and privacy law.

Based on this registration, she is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.