{"id":4543,"date":"2026-06-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-67585"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bill-introducing-a-legal-presumption-of-an-employment-contract-based-on-an-hourly-rate-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wet-invoering-rechtsvermoeden-van-arbeidsovereenkomst-op-basis-van-uurtarief-aangenomen\/","title":{"rendered":"Act introducing a legal presumption of an employment contract based on an hourly rate passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has passed the bill introducing a legal presumption of an employment contract based on an hourly rate. This bill amends Book 7 of the Civil Code by introducing a legal presumption of employment in cases where the hourly rate is low. The aim of this measure is to better protect low-paid self-employed people, who are often vulnerable workers, against bogus self-employment.<\/p>\n<h4>Threshold and goal<\/h4>\n<p>The legal presumption applies to self-employed people who earn less than \u20ac38 per hour (as at 1 January 2026). The introduction of this presumption makes it easier for these self-employed workers to assert their legal status as employees vis-\u00e0-vis their employer and, if necessary, in court.<\/p>\n<h4>Implications for clients<\/h4>\n<p>When self-employed workers invoke this legal presumption, clients must prove that there is no employment contract. If clients cannot prove this, the situation constitutes bogus self-employment. In that case, the self-employed person is entitled to the protections afforded to an employee, such as the right to continued pay in the event of illness and protection against dismissal.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:smaller\" class=\"im_source\">Source: Other | Bill | 36.783 | 15 June 2026<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has passed the bill introducing a legal presumption of an employment contract on the basis of<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}