Ester Damen

Practice Areas

Employment

Career

Ester's practice covers all aspects of employment law. Ester specializes in employment-law problems concerning privacy and data protection and the implementation of the GDPR in the Netherlands. This includes investigating and advising about #metoo situations and their employment-law consequences. Ester also advises both employers and works councils about the Dutch Works Councils Act and guides advice and consent procedures, and she litigates about employee participation cases before the Enterprise Section of the Court of Appeal.

Besides, Ester is a regular guest lecturer at the master's in Employment Law at Groningen University and she writes articles for the journals OR Rendement and OR Magazine.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Association of Employee Participation Professionals

Member of the Association of Employment Law Attorneys Amsterdam (VAAA)

Member of the Employment Law Association (VvA)

Member of the Employee Participation Law working group of VvA

Member of the Employee Participation focus group of the Social and Economic Council (SER)