Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Netherlands as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Netherlands: New rules on the taxation of stock options
Employees who receive stock options as part of their remuneration are now taxed when the shares become tradeable …
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Netherlands: New salary requirements for 2023
Revised salary thresholds for Highly Skilled Migrant (HSM) Work and Residence Permits, Intra-Corporate Transferee (ICT) Permits and EU Blue Cards …
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Netherlands: Consultation launched on Minimum Tax Act 2024 (Pillar Two)
Online consultation launched on a draft bill for the proposed Minimum Tax Rate Act 2024 …
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Netherlands: The economy began to shrink in Q3 2022
Although GDP rose by a healthy 3 …
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Netherlands: Work pressure generates longer work absence than average
Around 520,000 employees, or one in every 15 employees aged 15 to 74, named work pressure as the main reason for their last work absence last year …
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Netherlands: Budget plan for 2023
The Budget Plan for 2023 contains various measures relevant to Dutch employment and wage tax laws …
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Netherlands: KLM no longer giving pilots free flights to work
One of the World’s most generous employee perks is coming to an end …
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Netherlands: Minimum wage as of 1 July 2022
Latest minimum wage rise well below the growing rate of price inflation …
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Netherlands: Transposition of EU Directive 2019/1152 into Dutch law
The transposition of EU Directive 2019/1152 into Dutch law has introduced a number of important new rights …
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Netherlands: Dutch House approves to make work from home a legal right
The Dutch parliament has approved legislation to establish work-from-home as a legal right, making the Netherlands one of the first countries to grant mandatory remote working …
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Netherlands: FNV and Uber meet in court: does the driver want to be employed?
The Trades union FNV is back in court claiming that Uber has still not complied with last Autumn’s court ruling …
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Netherlands: New payment to be launched for the first period of parental leave
From 2nd August 2022, the Paid Parental Leave Act will introduce a period of 9 weeks paid leave to form the front end of the 26-week parental leave entitlement …
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Netherlands: Preparation time is working time
A subdistrict court in the Hague has ruled that a requirement to be at a workstation ten minutes before commencement of contractual work duties does constitute working time that must be rewarded …
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Netherlands: Employee dismissed for refusing a PCR-Test
According to the District Court of Amsterdam, although a company’ instruction to require a PCR test in certain situations breached the right to private life and physical integrity, the breach of this fundamental right was justified in the context of the pandemic …
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Netherlands: 1 in 5 young workers experienced work-related stress in 2021
According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS) National Youth Monitor, 27% of employed young people indicated that they sometimes or regularly experienced work-related stress because they expected too much from themselves …
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