Employment and Labor

Johanne Boelhouwer is a partner in the Employment and Labor practice group in Amsterdam. She focuses on employment law and employee benefits, and she is also certified as a pension lawyer.

She litigates and supports clients in a wide range of employment matters—including individual, collective, and labor law matters. She has extensive experience guiding clients through works council and union consultation procedures, advising clients with regard to transfers of undertakings and flexible forms of labor arrangements (e.g. temporary employment, contracting, hiring staff through temporary agencies or payroll companies). Johanne keeps a close watch on developments in the law and regularly provides her clients with insights.

She frequently assists clients in a variety of pension matters, such as mandatory participation in pension funds, amendments to pension plans, indexation issues, the move to a different pension arrangement and what it involves.

Johanne also advises clients on their (executive) remuneration policies, including publicly listed companies. She is quite knowledgeable with regard to the Executives Pay Act (WNT), advising mainly the semi-public sector, including universities, housing corporations and health institutions.

Association of employment law (in Dutch: Vereniging voor Arbeidsrecht) Association of pension lawyers (in Dutch: Vereniging van Pensioenjuristen) Association of females in the institutional pension business ( in Dutch: vrouwen in institutioneel pensioen, ViIP)

Johanne Boelhouwer has registered the following principal and secondary legal practice areas in the Dutch Bar’s register of legal practice areas:

Employment 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 Dutch Bar.

Partner

INSEAD, 2017, Mini-MBA course

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2017, Certified Pension Lawyer

University of Amsterdam, 2011, LL.M., Employment Law

Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, 2010, Exchange program

Erasmus University, 2009, LLB