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Dr. Mijke Houwerzijl is professor of Labour Law at Tilburg University. She also holds a chair in Comparative and European Labour Law at the University of Groningen. She studied law at the University of Amsterdam and worked for four years as a legal practioner, specialising in employment law, civil litigation and social security law. In 2005, she completed her doctorate on the background, content and implementation of the Posting of Workers Directive at Tilburg University. She is a member of the editorial board of two Dutch academic journals in labour law (TRA and online journal ARBAC) and chairs the Dutch department of the International society for Labour and Social Security Law (ISLSSL).
She has written widely on Dutch and EU labour law, employment law and social security law, with an emphasis on issues concerning workers mobility across the EU, labour migration and monitoring & enforcement of labour law and social security law. She often participates in both academic research projects and in commissioned research projects, e.g. of the European Commission on the legal aspects of posting of workers, and of the ETUC on combating letterbox-type practices. Other research projects include contributions to the FORMULA-project of University of Oslo, a report on the application of the Dutch collective agreement for the transport by road sector to different modalities of transnational employment and a study for Eurofound on 'Liability in subcontracting processes in the European construction sector'.
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External positions
Mitglied des Kuratoriums (Institut fuer Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europaeischen Union IAAEU)
29 May 2018 → …Appeals Committee (Stichting Fair Produce, Raad van Advies)
1 Jan 2012 → …Reviewing papers (Open Access tijdschrift ARBAC)
1 Jan 2012 → …Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law (Rijks Universiteit Groningen (RUG))
1 Oct 2010 → …Editor, review articles (Tijdschrift Recht & Arbeid)
1 Apr 2006 → …Keywords
- Labour Law
- Social Politics
- Social Security Law
- Labour
- Social Security Law, International
- Industrial/Labour Relations
- Working Conditions
- Labour Market
- Mobility Of Labour
- Working Conditions Creation
- Labour Issues
- Labour Market Policy
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Research Output
Posting of workers: From a blurred notion associated with ‘cheap labour’ to a tool for ‘fair labour mobility’?
Houwerzijl, M. & Berntsen, L. E., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Posted work in the European Union, the political economy of free movement. Arnholtz, J. & Lillie, N. (eds.). Routledge, p. 147 - 166 20 p. (Routledge Research in Employment Relations).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Expertoordeel inzake de WagwEU
Houwerzijl, M., 9 Jan 2019, 38 p.Research output: Book/Report › Report › Professional
Open Access
Free movement of (posted) workers and applicable labour and social security law
Houwerzijl, M. & Verschueren, H., 20 Aug 2019, European Labour Law. Jaspers, T., Pennings, F. & Peters, S. (eds.). Intersentia, p. 45 - 131 87 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Gedwongen arbeid bij De Goede Herder: De werkwijze in de instellingen van de kloosterorde De Goede Herder in de periode 1945-1975 en de rol van de overheid daarbij
Research output: Book/Report › Report › Professional
Open Access
File
In hoeverre draagt de Wet Arbeid Schijnconstructies bij aan het bestrijden van schijnconstructies op de arbeidsmarkt?
Research output: Book/Report › Report › Professional
Open Access
File
Activities
Digitalisation of company law and the impact on social security law
Mijke Houwerzijl (Speaker)
24 May 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation › Professional
Public initiative on the mobility package and beyond
Mijke Houwerzijl (Speaker)
12 Apr 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
Letterbox companies, tax havens and the tax avoidance industry
Mijke Houwerzijl (Speaker)
9 Apr 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
Normative political theory in an era of globalization. The case of child labour
M.S. Houwerzijl (Speaker)
15 Sep 2002
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation › Scientific
Projects
- 3 Finished
The Interconnectedness of International and National Social Law
Senden, L. A. J., Pennings, F. J. L., Hendrickx, F., Houwerzijl, M. & Jacobs, A.
1/01/00 → 31/12/01
Project: Research project
The Horizontal Penetration of Social Norms
Pennings, F. J. L., Hendrickx, F., Wilthagen, T., Houwerzijl, M., Jacobs, A. & van Lent, C. M. E. P.
1/01/00 → 31/12/04
Project: Research project
De arbeidsrechtelijke positie van de gedetacheerde werknemer.
Houwerzijl, M., Fase, W. J. P. M. & Pennings, F. J. L.
1/09/97 → 1/02/05
Project: Research project