University of Leiden Appoints First Staff Ombuds
Universiteit Leiden, the oldest university in the Netherlands, has appointed Marjan van Dasselaar as its first Staff Ombuds Officer. The announcement stems from an agreement between the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (Vereniging van Universiteiten) reached four employee labor organizations in 2020. Dasselaar joins Eugène van der Heijden, who has served as Ombuds for Students since 2015. Dasselaar will, "will offer independent advice to the University on how to make the working environment safer [based] on themes and recurring patterns that often form a background to problems encountered by staff, such as unacceptable behaviour, discrimination, conflicts and integrity issues."
For the past 12 years, Dasselaar had been an independent legal advisor focused on employment law, social security law and administrative law. She has also worked as an Ombuds for various municipalities in the Netherlands since 2019. She has served on several boards, including the CNS Ede Foundation and the Light for the World Foundation. She earned her law degree at Utrecht University. (LEI Staff Announcement; LinkedIn.)
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