Wietje de Muinck Keizer

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Network

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.

Languages

Dutch and English

Expertise

Employment law

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

global mobility
employment agreements
employment manuals
(collective) termination(s) of employment
employee consultation procedures
collective bargaining agreements
confidentiality and non-compete covenants

transfer of undertaking (TUPE)
employee benefit schemes
stock (option) schemes
commission contracts
directors, management and agency agreements
pension schemes
equal treatment, etc.

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:

privacy policy
international transfer of personal data (SCC, BCR and Privacy EU-VS Shield)
personnel tracking system (monitoring)
data breaches

the General Data Protection Regulation
General Data Protection Regulation (Implementation) Act
notification to the Personal Data Protection Authority, etc.

Experience

Wietje has been a lawyer since 1990. She previously worked at Barents Krans and VMW Taxand.

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.