Draft Legal Templates

In the Netherlands, employment contracts must follow strict rules from the Dutch Civil Code and from collective labour agreements.

The collective agreement is the part businesses new to the Dutch market most often miss. Where one covers your sector, its terms apply to the relationship regardless of what your own contract says.

Companies expanding into the Netherlands need contracts that comply with local labour laws and with the collective agreements covering their sector.

Verbal agreements are legally valid in Dutch employment law, though written contracts are strongly preferred and are required for fixed-term positions.

That exception carries real consequences. A fixed-term arrangement without a written contract doesn't simply lack paperwork, it risks not being fixed-term.

For any role that isn't open-ended, the written document is the thing establishing the term rather than merely recording it.

Dutch law requires key employment terms to be documented within one month of someone starting work.

The requirement is documentary rather than ceremonial. What matters is that the terms exist in a form both sides can point to.

Preparing the contract before the start date meets the requirement and avoids reconciling written terms with a month of established practice.

An employment contract spells out the key agreements between employer and employee under Dutch law.

Where a collective labour agreement applies, the contract works alongside it rather than replacing it, so the two need to be consistent.

Checking the applicable collective agreement before settling terms is considerably easier than discovering a conflict after the fact.

Most of the exposure a commercial team carries doesn't come from the documents it writes. It comes from the ones it receives, where someone else made every drafting choice and the pressure is to sign and move on.

If you have ten minutes, spend them on four clauses. Indemnities, limitation of liability, termination rights and assignment. They account for a disproportionate share of the problems and they're rarely where people look first.

Knowing what that type of document normally contains is what makes this quick. An unusual clause stands out immediately, and so does a missing one, which is harder to see and often costs more.

Not every agreement carries the same risk, and treating them as though they do is what makes contracting slow and expensive at once.

Most commercial documents sit inside terms the business has already decided it's comfortable with. A few don't. Being able to tell those apart quickly and consistently is what lets the standard ones move and the unusual ones get the attention they're actually due.

The saving isn't only time. It's the external legal spend that goes on agreements which never needed reviewing in the first place, and the deals that quietly stall while they wait their turn. Customers close 70% faster working this way.

Each template is a starting point GenieAI drafts around your situation rather than a static file you download and fill in by hand. You say who's involved and what the arrangement is, and you get a document carrying the clauses that agreement usually needs.

After that you're editing rather than writing. Change terms, see what a counterparty has altered in their mark-up, and ask the document questions directly when a clause is doing something you didn't expect.

The library runs to 588 document types across contracts, policies, letters, deeds, notices and forms, drafted to local governing law across 150+ jurisdictions.

The categories below are organised by what the document is. Agreements, policies, letters, notices, deeds, certificates and forms. If you already know what it's called, that's the quickest way in.

If you know the kind of work but not the name of the document, the practice area pages group the same library by legal specialism, which tends to be easier to navigate.