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Amendments for all entrepreneurs

Yet to come into effect (16)

No more labour costs compensation (LKV) for older persons

Effective date: 1 January 2026

Are you an employer and do you employ or hire an employee aged 56 or older? From 1 January 2026, you can no longer apply for labour costs compensation (loonkostenvoordeel, LKV) for this employee if...

Employers may no longer deduct housing costs from minimum wage

Effective date: 1 January 2026

Do you employ staff, such as migrant workers, and do you arrange housing for them? Then there will be a change for you. In future you are no longer allowed to deduct housing costs from their statutory...

Transition payment compensation only for small employers

Effective date: 1 July 2026

Do you employ someone you want to dismiss after 2 years’ illness? You usually have to pay a transition payment. From 1 July 2026, not all employers will be eligible for compensation for the costs of...

Temporary employment agencies must be certified

Effective date: 1 January 2027

Do you run a temporary employment agency? A mandatory certification system for temporary employment agencies will be introduced. Agencies must have authorisation to operate, to combat abuse such as...

30% ruling: compensation for expats down to 27%

Effective date: 1 January 2027

Are you an employer? And do you hire highly skilled migrants to work for you in the Netherlands? Or do you post employees with a specific skill abroad? The tax advantage of the 30% ruling (expat...

Employers must prevent wage differences between men and women

Effective date: not yet known

Are you an employer? You must make sure men and women within your organisation receive equal pay. In the Netherlands it still happens that women with comparable experience and education get paid less...

Offering work to people with an occupational disability will be easier

Effective date: 2025 and 2026

Are you an entrepreneur with more than 25 employees? It will be easier and more attractive to employ people with an occupational disability. The government wants to simplify the jobs agreement and...

Zero-hours contracts no longer allowed

Effective date: not yet known

Do you employ staff on zero-hours contracts? In principle a (permanent) contract should be offered for structural work. In future workers with on-call contracts should get a basic contract for the...

Employment agencies must help migrant workers with BRP registration

Effective date: not yet known

Do you run a temporary employment agency? If so, you will have extra duties. You will have to help migrant workers you employ to register properly in the Personal Records Database (Basisregistratie...

Bereavement leave legally defined

Effective date: not yet known

Do you employ staff? Employees can experience bereavement due to a death. For employees in families with minor children whose partner or minor child has died, bereavement leave will be provided by...

Confidential officer will be mandatory

Effective date: not yet known

As an employer, you must provide a safe working environment for your staff. You must prevent improper conduct and psychosocial strain among your employees as much as possible. For this reason, it will...

Code of conduct will be mandatory in the workplace

Effective date: not yet known

Do you have 10 or more employees? You will be obliged to have a code of conduct to prevent improper conduct in the workplace. Improper conduct is for example, bullying, sexual intimidation,...

Serious workplace abuse becomes punishable

Effective date: not yet known

Do you work with migrant workers? Criminalisation of labour exploitation will be expanded and made simpler. This will make it easier to detect and prosecute offenders. Victims of human trafficking and...

Rules for using a non-compete clause tightened

Effective date: not yet known

Do you have staff and do you use a non-compete clause when an employee leaves your company? More and more often contracts contain non-compete clauses for no good reason. This makes it harder for...

Employees get more rights to work from home - rejected

Effective date: rejected

Please note: this bill has been rejected by the Senate (Eerste Kamer) Do you have 10 employees or more? Your staff was to get more rights to work from home. With the ‘Work where you want act’ (Wet...

Employers to get clarity on replacing sick employee sooner

Effective date: not yet known

Do you run an SME and is one of your employees ill? In future you will know sooner until when you need to keep a sick employee’s workplace available. This way you can start looking for a replacement...

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