What has changed?
Do you employ a state pensioner (AOW or state pension aged employee)? The period you have to continue to pay their wages in case of illness (sick pay) has been shortened to 6 weeks.
This period of 6 weeks is applicable from 1 July 2023. For those AOW employees who were already ill on 1 July 2023, the period of 13 weeks sick pay stays valid. For those AOW employees who fall ill on or after 1 July 2023 the 6-week period will apply.
For whom?
- entrepreneurs employing state pensioners (AOW employees)
When?
This change of the transitional law on working after state pension age came into force on 1 July 2023.