Stefan specialises in employment law and employee benefits. He represents clients in individual and collective labour law matters.
Admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, an important focus of Stefan’s practice is litigation before the Dutch Supreme Court, where he has represented companies, individual employees, and trade unions in several landmark cases.
Stefan regularly works closely together with other De Brauw practice groups, particularly in the field of pensions.
He was appointed as Professor of Employment Law at Leiden University in 2013, where he obtained his PhD on ‘Summary dismissal for urgent cause’ in the same year. Stefan regularly publishes articles in professional journals and newspapers on different employment law issues, and lectures at events for fellow members of the judiciary, and on behalf of the Netherlands Bar Association.
In Chambers Europe 2019 Stefan was ranked as a “Star Individual” who enjoys an “unrivalled reputation” in the field of Supreme Court employment litigation and who is recognised as a “thought leader” amongst market commentators. He was also described as “technically brilliant, [and someone who] handles the most important cases and is easy to get along with.”
Stefan has won ILO’s Client Choice Award for the best Employment and Labour Lawyer in the Netherlands, twice.
Stefan’s recent work includes:
Supreme Court: severance payment can reflect employee’s personal circumstances
Reed Business divests Elsevier Weekly and BeleggersBelangen to New Skool Media
Dutch Supreme Court: employees may strike earlier and without prior notification
Stefan Sagel elicits landmark Supreme Court ruling: right to strike expanded
Joh. A. Benckiser-led investor group makes public offer for D.E MASTER BLENDERS 1753
9 November 2020
Female workers to be compensated when maternity leave and paid holiday overlap
15 October 2020
NOW-3: Dutch government continues support for employers, but on less generous terms
16 September 2020
Cumulative ground for termination – does it ease rules on dismissal?
7 July 2020
Helping employers through the coronavirus crisis: the NOW framework at second glance
6 April 2020
Salary during the crisis – when employers have to continue paying
2 April 2020
Helping employers through the coronavirus crisis: a closer look at NOW
26 March 2020
19 March 2020
Dutch government announces emergency wage subsidies to support employers
16 March 2020
Dutch Supreme Court rules: partial dismissal possible at employee’s request
28 January 2020
16 December 2019
14 November 2019
11 October 2019
AG: employer must in principle end dormant employment by mutual consent at employee’s request
19 September 2019
20 June 2019
New labour law: flexible work more expensive, dismissals more flexible
3 June 2019
Exception to right to strike: court limits public transport action around Schiphol
16 May 2019
Trends: whistleblowing in Europe diverges from US on internal reporting and bounties
17 April 2019
Supreme Court to provide clarity on dormant employment agreements
11 April 2019
Preliminary questions on “dormant employment agreements” referred to Dutch Supreme Court
14 February 2019
12 February 2019
Employee’s reinstatement on appeal does not mean automatic loss of transition payment
5 February 2019
Dutch Supreme Court explains scope of employer’s obligation to reassign employees
15 January 2019
2019 Employment horizon: dismissal laws tweaked, and independent contractor rules sharpened
6 December 2018
More action against discrimination in the Dutch labour market
23 November 2018
Dutch Supreme Court: Posting of Working Directive may apply to international truck drivers
20 November 2018
New employment law already undergoes makeover – is labour market in the balance?
16 October 2018
Dutch Supreme Court: soon-to-be retired employees entitled to full transition payment
19 September 2018
Supreme Court: employees entitled to partial transition payment
14 September 2018
New UWV Implementation Rules regarding dismissal on economic grounds
12 July 2018
All circumstances relevant when calculating dismissed employee’s equitable compensation
4 June 2018
17 April 2018
Supreme Court – guidance for underperformance and damaged working relationship
17 April 2018
Update on legislative proposal regarding employment and dismissal law
15 February 2018
17 October 2017
New Dutch government to change rules on dismissals, independent contractors and payrolling
14 July 2017
Supreme Court: personal circumstances weigh in severance payment
15 January 2017
Conditional termination of employment remains possible under new dismissal laws
13 December 2016
Haviltex or CAO standard – Supreme Court rules on interpretation of contracts
13 November 2016
Dutch Supreme Court: no allocation required to qualify as a temporary employment agency
12 October 2015
Dutch Supreme Court: State liable for national legislation conflicting with EU law
8 June 2015
1 June 2015
Stefan Sagel’s lecture series on employment law at the University of the Netherlands online
26 February 2015
16 February 2015
Het Financieele Dagblad: Criticism on ‘political haste’ regarding the new rules governing dismissal
30 September 2014
Stefan Sagel gives inaugural lecture on fair dismissal under new employment laws
10 March 2014
Flexible workers better protected under imminent law change – update
10 February 2014
10 February 2014
Works councils’ consent rights on pension schemes to be extended once again
14 January 2014
9 January 2014
20 December 2013
6 November 2013
Stefan Sagel appointed professor of Employment Law at Leiden University
10 September 2013
Stefan Sagel advises Dutch parliament on revision of Dutch law governing dismissal
3 July 2012
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