Elias van Kampen

Partner

Expertise:

employment law
pension law
employee participation
fraud in the workplace

Elias is specialised in employment law and pension law in the broadest sense. His focuses within those fields include employment contracts, individual and collective dismissals, amendments to terms of employment (including pension), directors, transfer of undertaking, non-competition clauses, employee participation, the performance of due diligence investigations and the transfer of accrued benefits.

He also has special expertise in the field of cross-border employment law, in particular in the international transport sector, and in procedural law. Elias represents both employers and employees.

Between 2004 and 2017, Elias was attorney at law at two leading Dutch law firms. He is an active member of the following associations or platforms:

Member of the Dutch Association of Employment Lawyers (VAAN)
Member of the Association for Employment Law
Member of the Association of Employment Lawyers Amsterdam
Member of the Association of Pension Lawyers
Member of the International Pension & Employee Benefits Law Association
Member of the Dutch Procedural Law Association

Track records

Advising Quentin Hotels in various dismissal cases.

Assisting Maretti in case of summary dismissal of an employee.

Advising HEMA on the Collective Labor Agreement.

Advising CITIC on various dismissal cases, reviewing contracts, providing in-house training on employment law topics.

Providing general employment related advice to Lycatel.

Advising Qiss-IT on secondment, framework agreements and various dismissal matters.

Providing general employment related advice to Alter Domus: dismissal of a number of employees, reviewing employment contracts and providing in-house training on employment law topics.

Advising Cytek Biosciences on whether they were covered by an industry-wide pension fund.

Advising CWS on adjusting the pension scheme and reviewing the company's employment conditions package.

Advising shareholders of Bakker.com on the dismissal of a director of the company.

Providing general employment related advice to Spring Real Estate.

Assisting a Swedisch retail company with the termination of the employment agreements of several employees of its dutch subsidiaries.

Advising a steelcompany with the dismissal of a sick employee.

Assisting solar energy specialist Ecorus Development with the termination of the employment agreements and advise in a dispute with former employees on the violation of their non-competition clauses.

Represented Jeunsee op Stoom B.V. in proceedings before The Human Rights Board about a discrimination complaint of a former employee.