Engage a lawyer for a settlement agreement
Because you don't deal with daily resign, a settlement agreement or a transition allowance it is advisable to engage a lawyer in these situations. He has the right expertise and experience to advise and assist you in the best possible way.
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If you reach a compromise with your employer and proceed to dismiss by mutual agreement, your employer will draw up a settlement agreement. You may then review this draft. About this proposal you can negotiate before you agree and sign. An employment lawyer will assess whether the determination document meets all the requirements. After all, you want to avoid agreeing and then losing your right to unemployment benefits.
Our experienced employment lawyer will advise and assist you so that you get the best deal from your dismissal
What our VSO dismissal lawyers can do for you
By conducting a comprehensive check on the settlement agreement by our employment lawyer, we can establish your negotiating position in case of dismissal. After checking the legal requirements to guarantee your unemployment benefit, we will check whether the severance pay has been calculated correctly. In many cases, we can negotiate a higher severance payment for you.
A VSO lawyer can answer several questions for you:
- Is my transitional allowance correct?
- Is my unemployment benefit secured?
- What about my holidays?
- Can I already look for another job?
- Can I negotiate a higher fee?
- Will I get a (positive) certificate?
- Is the notice period correct?
- In short: are my rights secured?
- How does the process of a (free) check VSO go?
Is there any possibility of (more) compensation?
In most cases, you can get a higher severance payment than what is initially offered. Your employer usually proposes a severance payment in the settlement agreement, often based on the transitional compensation. However, it is important to know that you can often negotiate a higher severance payment than just the statutory transitional compensation. Your employment lawyer will help you with this.
Costs of a VSO lawyer
The costs of a VSO lawyer are paid by the employer in almost all cases. In fact, in almost all cases, the employer will reimburse the cost of legal assistance in reviewing and negotiating your settlement agreement and severance pay.
Many settlement agreements include a fee or budget for legal assistance. With a legal budget, an audit or negotiation can often be conducted at the employer's expense and the employee himself has no costs. Legal costs are almost always covered by your employer.
How will our employment lawyer audit your VSO?
- How does the process of a (free) check VSO go?
- You will receive a VSO from the employer;
- You send the VSO to us;
- Our employment lawyer will receive and review your VSO;
- Within 30 minutes, you will receive an opinion;
- The employment lawyer will assist you throughout the process;
- You will receive a better VSO (settlement agreement);
- You pay nothing because the employer pays all the costs.
Free verification of settlement agreement
Upload your settlement agreement and we will review it for you at no cost. Do we go to work for you to actually assist you during negotiations with your employer? Then we will try to include the legal costs in the settlement document, so that you only have to pay a small amount or even nothing for legal assistance.
Have you received a settlement agreement and want to have it checked that everything is correct? Please contact us via WhatsApp, call 085 080 5482 or send a email; our employment lawyer will be happy to talk to you and provide the answers to all your questions.