{"id":830,"date":"2019-09-17T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T14:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/schriftelijke-arbeidsovereenkomst-moet-in-de-loonadministratie\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:33:36","slug":"a-written-employment-contract-must-be-included-in-the-payroll-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/schriftelijke-arbeidsovereenkomst-moet-in-de-loonadministratie\/","title":{"rendered":"A written employment contract must be included in the payroll records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7159\" src=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/20190917_Arbeidsovereenkomst-bij-salarisadministratie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In legal terms, anything you have agreed verbally constitutes a contract. Of course, to provide evidence of exactly what you have agreed, it is sensible to put the agreement in writing (or have it put in writing).<\/p>\n<h4>Premium differentiation<\/h4>\n<p>In order to be eligible to pay employees\u2019 contributions at the reduced rate, the law requires a written employment contract. This requirement is set out in <a href=\"https:\/\/wetten.overheid.nl\/BWBR0019070\/2019-06-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Article 2.3<\/a> of the Wfsv Decree. The <a href=\"http:\/\/deeplink.rechtspraak.nl\/uitspraak?id=ECLI:NL:HR:2014:1464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Supreme Court<\/a> confirmed in 2014 that this requirement is justified.<\/p>\n<p>The higher contribution rate currently applies in a number of designated sectors to employees on fixed-term contracts.<\/p>\n<h4>WAB<\/h4>\n<p>On 1 January 2020, the Balanced Labour Market Act (WAB) will come into force. Under this Act, a high and a low contribution rate will apply across all sectors. The low rate may be applied to employees on permanent contracts. From 2020, both the high and low contribution rates will be the same for all sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The implementing regulations, which were amended following the introduction of the WAB, include a requirement that the employer must include (a copy of) the written employment contract in their payroll records. It is not yet clear whether the payroll processor\u2019s records may or must also contain such a copy.<\/p>\n<p>Written employment contracts are not always in place for employees who have been working for an employer for a long time. It is unclear whether the terms of employment must then be set out in writing once again. However, in the case of employees whose fixed-term contracts have been converted to permanent contracts by operation of law, a permanent employment contract will still need to be drawn up.<\/p>\n<h4>Payslip<\/h4>\n<p>The new implementing rules also require that the nature of the employment contract be stated on the (digital) payslip provided to the employee and in the payroll tax return to be submitted to the Tax and Customs Administration. Naturally, this information must be entered into the payroll records. The changes to the payslip layout will be implemented by the payroll software suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juridisch is wat je mondeling bent overeengekomen een overeenkomst. Natuurlijk is het, met het oog op het bewijs wat je precies hebt afgesproken, verstandig om de overeenkomst op papier te (laten) zetten. Premiedifferentiatie Om de werknemerspremies tegen het lage tarief af te mogen dragen, eist de wet een schriftelijke arbeidsovereenkomst. Deze eis is opgenomen in [&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-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}