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Rutger Ploum

Rutger Ploum

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Ploum

Ploum

Netherlands

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Employment

Ploum  fields a Rotterdam-based employment and incentives group which focuses on co-determination and works council mandates. The team is also adept at handling employment litigation, dismissals and restructurings. Practice heads Rutger Ploum and Simon Tan both handle contentious and non-contentious employment matters such as conflicts between companies and work councils or unions, collective labour disputes and termination cases. Daniël van Gerven co-chairs the team and has an emphasis on co-determination matters and cross-border M&A.
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Phone
+31 6 2269 3315
Email
[email protected]
Profile
ploum.nl

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Work Department
Employment & co-determination
Care
China Desk
Position

Attorney at law, partner

Career

Rutger advises and litigates in the field of employment law. Within that field, he focuses on individual and collective dismissal law, reorganisations (including the Collective Redundancy (Notification) Act, redundancy programmes and the Social-Economic Council’s mergers code), employment contracts, collective employment agreement issues, engagement agreements, appointment and dismissal of statutory directors, disciplinary measures, employee sickness absenteeism, competition law and pension law. Rutger works for both large (stock-exchange listed) companies and medium-sized companies and foundations. In addition, he specialises in dismissal of statutory directors.

Languages
Dutch, English, German
Memberships
  • Association of Employment Lawyers of the Netherlands (Vereniging Arbeidsrecht Advocaten Nederland)
  • Association of Employment Lawyers of Rotterdam (Vereniging van Rotterdamse Arbeidsrecht Advocaten)
  • Dutch Employment Law Association (Vereniging voor Arbeidsrecht)
  • Dutch Association for Privacy Law (Vereniging Privacy Recht)
Education

Rutger graduated from Leiden in 1989, after which he completed an internship at the Dutch embassy in Jakarta which involved setting up trade missions between the Netherlands and Indonesia. After this, he started work as a lawyer in Rotterdam. In 1995, he was one of the seven founders of Ploum. After completing the Post-Graduate Programme in Employment Law in 2000, in 2009 Rutger completed a course in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the University of Amsterdam in 2009. As a result, besides being a lawyer and partner he is also a mediator.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Daniël van Gerven is a knowledgeable and hands-on partner.’

  • ‘Very strong team throughout the ranks. Great partner involvement, always on the ball. Able to overcome all hurdles with a counterparty, very pleasant to work with. Provides strong support, over and over again. Really committed.’

Key clients

  • Allianz
  • AE CORP NL B.V.