A Right to Work from Everywhere

A key priorty for the EAPM is to facilitate experience exchange without profit or commercial gain. As the European umbrella body of national HR-related organisations, we regularly host County-specific ‘sharing unique practice’ events.

Please join us as we hear from Lucas van Wees, past EAPM President, Treasurer WFPMA and NVP/ Netherlands Delegate about the recent changes to Dutch working practices which effectively give people the right to work from everywhere.

The Dutch parliament recently approved legislation to establish work-from-home as a legal right, making the Netherlands one of the first countries to grant remote working flexibility by law. The bill is currently going through the Senate for approval. The pandemic has fuelled a shift in attitudes about work, with many workers seeking to maintain some of the flexibility they’ve experienced over the last two years. The legislation will require employers to consider employees’ requests to work from home as long as their professions allow it.

Lucas will be sharing further insights and the impact this new law will have on HR and People Managers in the Netherlands.

The Dutch Network for HR-Professionals (NVP) is the network for human resource professionals who are engaged in issues such as HR strategy, employment relationships, recruitment and selection, rewards systems, conditions of employment and training plans. It was founded on 28 January, 1965. We currently have approx. 2,000 members.

The NVP’s main objectives are to help determine and defend values and standards in the field of HR, to have an important say in the development of new social legislation, to set codes of conduct regarding HR, to meet professional training needs and to improve industrial relations in general.