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Illness and incapacity for work

There are several things you must do when one of your employees calls in sick. For example, you must notify the occupational health and safety service (arbodienst) or your occupational health and safety doctor (arboarts) that the employee is ill. In the event of prolonged illness, you must compile a reintegration file. You may be eligible for a subsidy if you hire or have in your employment someone who is partially unfit for work.

Below is an overview of the rules and regulations, subsidies and taxes in relation to the topic “Illness and incapacity for work”.

  1. CAO (Collective Labour Agreement)

    If you run a company in the Netherlands, you may have to deal with collective labour agreements (CAOs), which specify ...

  2. Compiling a reintegration file

    If one of your employees becomes chronically ill, you are obliged to maintain a reintegration file. You start compiling ...

  3. Employee insurance schemes and national insurance

    If you have a company in the Netherlands, you may have to deal with employee insurance schemes and national insurance, ...

  4. Illness and recovery reporting

    If you own a company in the Netherlands and an employee reports ill, you must notify your occupational health and ...

  5. Industrial accidents, reporting

    As an employer, you are obliged to report industrial accidents to the Arbeidsinspectie (Health and Safety Inspectorate) ...

  6. Insurance

    Business owners who live in the Netherlands are obliged to take out health care insurance under the Health Care ...

  7. Prenatal and childbirth allowance for self-employed people

    Self-employed women are pursuant to the Work and Care Act (Wet arbeid en zorg) entitled to a benefit when they ...

  8. Reintegration obligations

    If you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees becomes ill, you must work together with the ...

  9. Self-insurer for employee insurance

    All workers in the Netherlands must be insured as required pursuant to the Labour Capacity Act (Wet Werk en Inkomen ...

  10. Sick pay

    If you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees becomes ill, you are required to pay at least ...

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  1. Trainees

    Trainees are employees who work for your company as part of their training/education. In the Netherlands, some ...

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