Rules and regulations for all entrepreneurs
If your employee is unable to pay their debts, creditors can ask the court for an attachment of earnings order (aoe order), which will be delivered by a court bailiff. This means you are legally...
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,...
For employees with a fixed-term contract of at least 6 months, a notice period (aanzegtermijn) applies. You must give temporary employees written notice at least 1 month before their contract of...
If you are temporarily unable to provide your employees with work or if you do not let them know when there is work, you must still pay them their wages. In some situations it is possible to exclude...
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...
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...
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...
Do you employ staff in the Netherlands? You have to deduct payroll tax from your employees' wages. You must pay these payroll taxes to the tax authorities (file payroll tax returns). Payroll tax...
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...
If you employ staff in the Netherlands, you must pay your employees sufficiently. This means you may not pay less than the statutory minimum wage. Do you fail to pay the proper minimum wage or holiday...
Do you run a company in the Netherlands? And do you hire temporary staff via an intermediary such as an employment agency or secondment agency? Or do you subcontract work to a...
Do you run a business in the Netherlands and do you employ staff? You must provide your employees with a paper or digital payslip. With this payslip you inform them about the composition of their...
If you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees becomes ill, you are required to pay at least 70% of their last earned wages. You have to do this for a maximum period of 2 years. You...
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...
Do you want to dismiss an employee or not extend their contract? By law, you are obliged to pay them compensation for dismissal. This is called a transition payment (transitievergoeding). You do not...
Do you provide staff allowances to your employees? The work-related costs scheme (werkkostenregeling, WKR) allows you to spend part of your total taxable wage (the 'discretionary scope' or...