Curriculum Vitae

Lawyer / associate partner

Expertises

Employment law
Civil service law
Pension law
Employee participation law

Education

Law, Leiden University
Post academic training Labour Law (PALA), Erasmus University Rotterdam/VU
Pension law, Oysterwijck College/Akkermans & Partners

Memberships

Member of the Netherlands Employment Lawyers Association (VAAN)
Member of The Hague Employment Lawyers Association (VHAA)
Member of the Labour Law Association
Member of the Association Civil Servants & Law
Member of the Association for Pension Law

Ancillary activities

Disciplinary judge Royal Dutch Hockey Association (KNHB)
Editorial secretary of the Journal of Public Sector Law (TAR)
Lecturer Legal PAO Leiden University (collective labour law and strike law)
Treasurer VHAA

Publications

The role of piecework in employment law, Labour Law 2023/36
Labour law sanctions bookish employee and civil servant, TAR 2022/120
Annotation collective dismissal committee, JAR 2022/40
Shared duty of care between employer and pension provider in the provision of information, Pension Law Association, March 2021
Dismissal for breach of performance standard: double preventive dismissal test, TAR 2020/17
Limits to civil servants’ freedom of expression on social media, TAR 2018/1
“Drastic changes to the Minimum Wage and Minimum Holiday Allowance Act as of 1 January 2018”, TAP 2017/301

Languages

Dutch
English
German

Koen Vermeulen

Koen Vermeulen is a lawyer at GMW advocaten and associate partner. He specialises in employment law, employee participation law and pension law. He has more than twenty years of experience in these areas and advises on a wide range of employment law matters.

His practice includes matters relating to dismissal, employee participation and pension schemes. He assists companies, organisations, institutions and individuals.

In addition to his practice, Koen regularly publishes and teaches, driven by his academic interest in employment law. He teaches, among other things, collective labour law at the Employment Law Specialisation Course organised by Leiden University.

Koen acts with a (pro)active commitment to his client’s interests. Even when multiple parties or conflicting interests are involved, Koen maintains his focus on the broader picture.

Get in touch with Koen

+31 70 2007747

+31 6 39113885

k.vermeulen@gmw.nl

Articles

15 January 2026

Works council’s right to be consulted in an international group

The works council (ondernemingsraad, OR) is entitled to all information that it “reasonably” needs to provide advice on, for example, a reorganisation.

15 September 2025

Duty of care in pension compensation

The transition to the new pension system is in full swing. The social partners involved in the pension funds have largely completed their transition plans. These plans always include a section on compensation for current participants, employees, who are disproportionately disadvantaged by the change in the pension system.

23 July 2025

Medical decision making in the employment relationship from the employer’s perspective

Employers often perceive sickness notifications and absenteeism as a significant burden. This is understandable. Employees on sick leave would also prefer to be at work rather than at home unable to work.

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