Advice and employee participation - Amsterdam UMC

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Advice and employee participation

Amsterdam UMC has various advisory and employee participation bodies that contribute to sound administration and engagement within the organisation: the works council, the nursing advisory council, the medical staff council, the client council and the two faculty medical student councils of VU and the University of Amsterdam. These bodies represent staff, patients and students and provide solicited and unsolicited advice on policy, organisational changes and strategic choices.

Amsterdam UMC Research B.V. also has a works council. Since researchers are spread throughout the organisation, virtually every request for advice or consent presented to Amsterdam UMC’s works council is also presented to the Research B.V. works council, through its board.

Consultation

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Consultation
All bodies have a meeting the full Board of Directors once or twice a year. The employee participation portfolio holder on the Board of Directors also maintains close contact outside the regular meetings. A theme-based meeting was held for the first time in 2025; it was attended by representatives of all advisory and employee participation bodies, the full Board of Directors and Supervisory Board, who discussed the themes of social safety, digitisation in healthcare and education, regional cooperation, external cooperation/valorisation and medium- and long-term accommodation. That meeting was such a success that another one will be held in 2026.

Alongside the ordinary consultative meetings between the works council and the portfolio holder, a meeting to discuss day-to-day affairs/mandatory Section 24 meeting takes place twice a year with the full Board of Directors, with representatives from the Supervisory Board present.

The Supervisory Board’s contact person meets the Client Council twice a year. The Board of Directors and the medical staff council hold joint meetings seven times a year. The student councils have regular meetings with their ‘own’ deans.

Requests for consent/advice

A wide variety of topics was submitted to the advisory and employee participation bodies for advice, consent or information in 2025. Amsterdam UMC’s work council received 59 requests for advice or consent. Where applicable, the advice and/or consent of the Research B.V. works council was also included in the decision-making process, through its board. The requests covered a range of topics, including working hours regulations, restructuring and lasting partnerships. Some of those requests were also submitted to the other bodies: Four to the clients council and six to the medical staff council and/or nursing advisory council.