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Changes in rules and regulations
Amendments announced
- Employers must provide clear working conditions
- Paid parental leave
- Safety coordinator mandatory for construction and demolition work
- Childcare benefit will no longer depend on hours worked
- STAP budget for training and development
- Better protection for whistleblowers
- MKB Idee (SME Idea) scheme
- Tel mee met Taal (Count on skills) programme
- Lifelong learning credit
- Wage tax on share options delayed for employers
- Subsidy scheme for practice-based learning third learning pathway
- Subsidy scheme retraining for ICT and technology
- Pension
- Refusing certificate of conduct (VOG) based on police data
Amendments in force
- Transport companies must have administrative staff
- Trucks must return home every 8 weeks
- New requirements for inland navigation crew
- Inspectorate SZW becomes Netherlands Labour Authority
- Less reduction in tax credits in 2022
- Increase discretionary scope work-related costs scheme (WKR)
- Startups can pay director-major shareholder minimum wage for an extra year
- Better employee participation for flex workers
- Reimbursement for employees working from home
- Companies have to close smoking areas
- More women in top positions of listed companies
- Occupational Disability Fund premium for SMEs lowered in 2022
- Minimum wage to increase on 1 January 2022
- STAP budget to replace tax deduction for schooling