{"id":1591,"date":"2025-03-28T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/kabinet-gaat-door-met-wet-vbar\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:34:53","slug":"cabinet-presses-ahead-with-vbar-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/kabinet-gaat-door-met-wet-vbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet goes ahead with VBAR law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social Affairs Minister Van Hijum, in a bri<\/a>e<\/a>f<\/a> to the House that he expects to submit the VBAR Bill to the House before the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill was submitted to the Parliament<\/a>.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breakfast sessions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In October, in a number of well-attended breakfast sessions, we explained, among other things, the VBAR bill. VBAR stands for Verduidelijking Beoordeling Arbeidsrelatie en invoering Rechtsverm presumption. In our article Change in regulations for self-employed workers<\/a> we describe the system laid down in the VBAR Act for assessing labour relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, the \u00dcber judgment was already hanging over the market. In this judgment, the Supreme Court provided answers to (preliminary) questions raised by Hof Amsterdam on 21 February 2025. We describe this judgment in our article Entrepreneurship also counts when assessing self-employment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In line with<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Van Hijum indicates in the parliamentary letter that he will bring the bill VBAR Act in line with the \u00dcber judgment. This means that entrepreneurship will be fully included in the assessment of the employment relationship, Derhalve not, as in the original bill, only when the indications pointing to employeehood weigh as heavily as the indications pointing to self-employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intention remains to have the VBAR Act come into force by 1 January 2026, but the minister noted that the timeframe for doing so would then be tight.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister van Sociale Zaken Van Hijum geeft in een brief aan de Kamer aan dat hij verwacht het wetsvoorstel Wet VBAR voor de zomer in te dienen bij de Kamer. Het wetsvoorstel is op 7 juli 2025 ingediend bij het Parlement. Ontbijtsessies In oktober hebben wij in een aantal goedbezochte ontbijtsessies onder andere het wetsvoorstel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}