Expats

Smidswater advocaten provides employment law services to foreign companies setting up their businesses in the Netherlands. The lawyers of Smidswater advocaten are true specialists in labour law: they have practised in this area for many years as lawyers, litigators, advisers, and sparring partners. Together with our network of specialists in the field of corporate immigration and international tax and socials security, we can help you set up your company in the Netherlands. We also provide employment law services to expats living and working in the Netherlands. Having lived and worked abroad for quite some time themselves, the labour law specialists at Smidswater advocaten have a special affinity for expats. We understand how challenging living abroad and having to deal with an unfamiliar legal system can be.

Whether you are moving abroad as an expat or have just come to the Netherlands as an expat or as a company setting up business in the Netherlands, the lawyers of Smidswater advocaten are here to assist you with all labour law related matters, such as:

  • skilled migrant workers visa
  • non-competition clauses
  • 30%-ruling
  • performance trajectories
  • dismissal
  • reorganisation and redundancy
  • (statutory) leave
  • working hours
  • illness
  • (unilateral) change of employment conditions

Smidswater advocaten also provides services to companies coming to the Netherlands. Together with our network of specialists in the field of corporate immigration and international tax and socials security, we can help you set up your company in the Netherlands.