Previous newsletters (read here) have frequently focused on developments relating to the legislative proposals for the Act on Clarification of the Assessment of Employment Relationships and Legal Presumption (Wet VBAR) and the Self-Employed Persons Act (Zelfstandigenwet), which are intended to provide greater certainty regarding the classification of self-employed persons.
The recently appointed Minister of Employment and Participation, Mr Aartsen, recently announced (read more) that a large part of the Wet VBAR will be scrapped and that Cabinet Jetten I is pressing ahead with the introduction of the Zelfstandigenwet. However, the Cabinet intends to maintain the legal presumption in the Wet VBAR that self-employed persons with an hourly rate of less than EUR 38 are in an employment relationship.