{"id":3673,"date":"2025-12-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/zzper-dacht-recht-te-hebben-op-opzegtermijn\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:00:00","slug":"zzper-thought-to-be-entitled-to-notice-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/zzper-dacht-recht-te-hebben-op-opzegtermijn\/","title":{"rendered":"ZZP'er thought to be entitled to notice period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A six-month job, a nice rate and sent home after only two weeks. That happened to a ZZP-er who worked for a third party through a client. He assumed he should still be paid for another month, because that was what the contract said. Sounds logical, but the judge saw it slightly differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A hidden escape in the contract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On paper, it seemed simple: termination could be done with a one-month notice. But further on in the same agreement, there was another rule: if the end client stopped hiring, the assignment could be terminated immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That scenario occurred. The end client pulled the plug. The client immediately followed suit. The ZZP-er found this unreasonable and took the matter to court. He claimed almost \u20ac17,000, equal to the notice period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/deeplink.rechtspraak.nl\/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:RBOVE:2025:6636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cantonal court<\/a> was clear: two business parties put a signature, so all the provisions in that contract apply. Even the one that is less favourable. The claim went off the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">As a self-employed person, what can you take away from this?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read all the notice provisions, not just the first paragraph.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A month's notice is nice, but exceptions can eliminate it completely.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Always check whether the client is allowed to stop immediately, and under what conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A few extra minutes of contract reading could save you a lot of disappointment. AND maybe even a lawsuit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Een klus van een half jaar, een mooi tarief en na twee weken alweer naar huis gestuurd. Dat overkwam een ZZP-er die via een opdrachtgever werkte bij een derde partij. Hij ging ervan uit dat hij toch nog een maand moest worden doorbetaald, want dat stond in het contract. Klinkt logisch, maar de rechter zag [&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-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","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=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}