- February 18, 2021
KinderRijk day care: everyone’s a winner!

Summary
A dispute arose within the management team of childcare organisation KinderRijk due to internal reports of disrespectful and unacceptable behaviour on the part of the manager and several other management team members. An external management consultant conducted an investigation into these allegations, which included, among other things, "elements that have negatively affected and/or are negatively affecting trust within the organisation".
This investigation resulted in the suspension of the operations manager based on accusations of sexual harassment, sexual innuendo, intimidation, coercion and aggressive and indecent language. This behaviour had apparently manifested itself, for the most part, in messages sent via the management team’s internal messaging app (WhatsApp). The company suspended the manager after a brief meeting at which the management consultant had also been present.
While the investigation was ongoing, a report was drawn up which included the reasons for the manager’s suspension. The company shared the report with others in the organisation before the investigation findings had become definitive and before the manager had been given the chance to respond to them. This is not a typical course of action, and was likely taken to "appease" other employees.
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Dennis is a founding partner of CLINT. He studied Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam and in 1999 he became a certified lawyer. Before Dennis joined CLINT in 2016, he was a partner at the law firm HDK and before that he worked at the Amsterdam office of Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he headed the labor law division.
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