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Do you have a foreign employee temporarily working for you in the Netherlands or an employee who is going to work for you abroad? Or are you a self-employed professional on assignment? Then you will...

CAO (Collective Labour Agreement)

If you run a company in the Netherlands and you hire staff, you may have to work with a collective labour agreement (Collectieve Arbeidsovereenkomst , CAO). Find out if a CAO applies to your business,...

Company lease vehicles

If you run a business in the Netherlands and you or your employee(s) use a car on business trips, in some cases you may provide an allowance for the costs or offset the costs against tax. What rules...

Employing foreign personnel

Do you want to hire foreign staff to come and work for you in the Netherlands? Then you are the sponsor (referent). You have to check if you need to apply for the visa or work permit. Recruiting...

Attention: amendment

Employment contract

An employment contract (arbeidscontract) is an agreement between an employee and an employer. It contains the agreements between the employer and employee which form the conditions of employment...

Attention: amendment

Equal treatment and pay

If you employ staff in the Netherlands, you may not discriminate. This means you are not allowed to treat employees differently, discriminate or exclude anyone on the grounds of: religion beliefs...

Attention: amendment

Giving notice for employees on fixed-term contracts

Do you employ workers on a fixed-term contract of at least 6 months? Then the notice period applies. You must inform them before the contract ends whether or not you intend to renew their contract...

Holiday entitlement

If you run a business in the Netherlands and you employ staff, you must comply with the statutory regulations regarding holiday entitlements (in Dutch). This also applies if your business is...

Joining a pension fund

There is a variety of different compulsory and voluntary pension funds in the Netherlands. Pension funds can be set up for an industry sector, an occupational group, or specifically for a large...

Leave schemes

In the Netherlands, employees can make use of various statutory leave schemes. There are different types of leave: Statutory leave is regulated by the Employee Insurance Agency (Uitvoeringsinstituut...

Attention: amendment

National and employee insurance schemes (social security)

Social insurance schemes provide a temporary income during, for instance, unemployment, old age, illness, or incapacity for work. There are 2 types of social insurance schemes in the Netherlands:...

Attention: amendment

Non-compete clause

You can include a non-compete clause in your employee’s employment contract to protect your business interests when they leave your employment. This clause prevents them from working for your...

Attention: amendment

Notification of posted workers

Are you a foreign service provider (employer or self-employed person) or are you the client of a foreign service provider from the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland? And will you work...

On-call employees

An on-call employee (oproepkracht) only works when you, the employer, call them up. You have agreed this with your employee. There are different types of on-call contracts with different rules. What...

Payrolling

If you need staff, but do not want to employ them yourself, you can hire them through a payroll company. To do so, you enter a contract with a payroll company. Payroll employees are entitled to at...

Pension

In the Netherlands, pensions consist of at least one of the following elements: a state pension, a supplementary pension, and/or private insurance. Old Age Pension (AOW) In general, everybody who...

Private use of company car

If you run a company in the Netherlands, you or your employees may use a company car. If you use this car privately, this may have fiscal consequences, both for business owners as well as employees....

Rules for employing minors

Do you want to employ young people, for example for a side job or holiday work? In the Netherlands special rules apply to the employment of young people regarding the kind of work and their working...

Attention: amendment

Social security when working in another EU country

Are you or is your employee going to work in an EU country other than the Netherlands? Or in more than one EU countries? In some cases, you are still covered by the social security system in the...

Statutory minimum wage

In the Netherlands employers must pay their employees aged 21 and up at least the statutory hourly minimum wage and the statutory minimum holiday allowance. For employees aged 15 to 20, the youth...

Attention: amendment

Trial period

If you want to employ someone in the Netherlands, you can agree on including a trial period in their employment contract. During this period both parties can then terminate the contract without having...

Work performed by state pensioners

Do you run a business in the Netherlands and does an employee reach state pension age (AOW age)? Employees are allowed to work after reaching state pension age. You must then take into account the...

Work placement company and interns

Interns are employees who work (follow an internship) in a company as part of their training. A work placement company is a company that offers internships to students. Internship An internship is...

Working with volunteers

Do you want to work with volunteers in your organisation? You must comply with specific rules around fees and contracts for volunteers. If you fail to do so, the Netherlands Tax Administration...

Works council or staff representation

Your employees have the right to participate in the decision-making process on matters that directly affect them. To this end you need to set up a works council (ondernemingsraad, OR), staff...

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