{"id":43352,"date":"2019-12-11T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/wab-2020-avoid-the-higher-unemployment-insurance-premium\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:22:50","slug":"wab-2020-avoid-the-higher-unemployment-insurance-premium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wab-2020-avoid-the-higher-unemployment-insurance-premium\/","title":{"rendered":"WAB 2020: avoid the higher unemployment insurance premium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have employees without an \u201cdefinite contract&#8221;? If not, the unemployment insurance premium will be 5% higher starting 1 January 2020.<br \/>\nTo prevent this, the following may be agreed in writing with certain employees before 1 January 2020:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">employment contract for an indefinite period<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fixed scope of work (no 0-hours or min\/max)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has now been approved that these administrative requirements for the low unemployment insurance premium must be arranged before 1 April 2020 at the latest. This only applies to employment contracts of employees who entered service before 1 January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Market in Balance Act (WAB) will take effect on 1 January 2020. The purpose of this act is to improve the balance between permanent and flexible employment contracts. The main changes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unemployment insurance premiums for flex workers are 5% higher<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upon termination of the employment contract (at the initiative of the employer), the employee is entitled to a transition allowance (severance payment) from day one<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a new ground for dismissal, being the \u2018cumulation ground\u2019 (sum of one or more grounds for dismissal)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during a 3-year period, a maximum of 3 fixed-term employment contracts can be concluded with the employee<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the payroll-worker at least the same employment conditions and legal position apply as for employees employed by the hirer<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a written calling period of at least 4 days applies for the on-call worker; the on-call worker is also entitled to a contract offer for a fixed scope of work after an on-call contract of 1 year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have employees without an \u201cdefinite contract&#8221;? If not, the unemployment insurance premium will be 5% higher starting 1 January 2020. To prevent this, the following may be agreed in writing with certain employees before 1 January 2020: employment contract for an indefinite period fixed scope of work (no  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"hf_cat_post":[],"class_list":["post-43352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43352"},{"taxonomy":"hf_cat_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limes-int.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hf_cat_post?post=43352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}