Illness and incapacity for work
On this page you find rules and regulations in relation to employees calling 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.
- Business insurance and personal insurance
In the Netherlands, you are not obliged to insure against any risks that you run as a result of having a company. ...
- CAO (Collective Labour Agreement)
If you run a company in the Netherlands, you may have to deal with collective labour agreements (CAOs), which ...
- 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 ...
- Health care insurance
Business owners and employees who live in the Netherlands are obliged to take out health care insurance under the ...
- Illness and recovery reporting
If you own a company in the Netherlands and an employee reports ill, you must notify your occupational health and ...
- Leave schemes
Pursuant to the Work and Care Act (Wet arbeid en zorg, WAZO), employees in the Netherlands can invoke a number of ...
- Prenatal and childbirth allowance for self-employed people
If you are a female self-employed worker without employees who is based in the Netherlands, you are entitled to an ...
- Reintegration obligations
If you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees becomes ill, you must work together with the ...
- Reporting industrial accidents
As an employer, you are obliged to report industrial accidents to the SZW Inspectorate (Inspectie SZW) if the ...
- Self-insurer for employee insurance
All workers in the Netherlands must be insured as required pursuant to the Work and Income (Capacity for Work) Act ...
- Sick pay
If you own a company in the Netherlands and one of your employees becomes ill, you are required to pay at least 70% ...
- UWV voluntary insurances
If you start a company in the Netherlands, you may be eligible for a voluntary insurance at the Institute for ...