{"id":3672,"date":"2025-12-02T12:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/loon-bij-schijnzelfstandigheid\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:29:51","slug":"wage-with-false-self-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/loon-bij-schijnzelfstandigheid\/","title":{"rendered":"Wages in cases of bogus self-employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you avoid being stuck with the zzp rate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you work with freelancers? Then you run the risk of the Tax Office or the courts saying afterwards: this is not a contract of assignment, but employment. And then? How are the wages determined? How do you avoid being stuck with the zzp'er's (high) hourly rate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does the civil court look at wages?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on current rulings, there are roughly two ways civil courts do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The agreed rate will be wages<\/em><br>Some judges rule that the rate you agreed with the self-employed person also counts as gross pay. With high rates, this can be a hefty cost.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Usual or fair wage<\/em><br>Other judges to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/wetten.overheid.nl\/jci1.3:c:BWBR0005290&amp;boek=7&amp;titeldeel=10&amp;afdeling=2&amp;artikel=618&amp;z=2025-07-18&amp;g=2025-07-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Section 7:618 of the Civil Code<\/a> and determine wages based on a customary or fair salary. This involves looking at collective agreements and market wages. The high zzp rate is then not automatically adopted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that this jurisprudence is still in flux. Judges do not always rule the same now, and new rulings may still change the direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to avoid surprises?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A zzp rate is often higher because the self-employed person takes care of holidays, pension and sick pay himself. Is the relationship retrospectively seen as employment? Then the court will look at a fair salary including those benefits.<br><strong>Tip:<\/strong>\u00a0Lay down in advance in the contract what happens in case of requalification. Agree that wages will be determined on the basis of a collective labour agreement or on the basis of a market salary. This way, you avoid being stuck with the zzp rate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoe voorkom je dat je vastzit aan het zzp-tarief? Werk je met zzp\u2019ers? Dan loop je het risico dat de Belastingdienst of de rechter achteraf zegt: dit is geen overeenkomst van opdracht, maar een dienstverband. En dan? Hoe wordt het loon bepaald? Hoe voorkom je dat je vastzit aan het (hoge) uurtarief van de zzp\u2019er? [&hellip;]<\/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-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","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=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}