The deployment of self-employed persons has become a standard in many sectors, such as education, health care, media and the building sector. For many organisations, this is a way to hire specialist knowledge or temporary capacity quickly.
At the same time, the legal framework is shifting; judges ever more often ask the question whether there is real self-employment or a relationship of authority belonging to an employment agreement. Self-employed persons cannot be designated as employees in all cases, but if they are, the consequences can be considerable.
The handball club Limburg Lions is one of the employers that fell 'victim' to a self-employed person, who went to court and was successful. The Sittard club had to pay a former player 50,000 Euros because he was an employee after all. Before the player received this sum of money, the four-times Dutch handball champion went bankrupt, partly because of this outcome.
Yesterday, our colleague Ruud Schepers was a guest at Radio 1 and Nieuwsuur (minutes: 8:30 -15:15) to given an explanation to the changing labour-law playing field. You can listen and/or view the news fragments here (in Dutch):
- NPO Radio 1: Zzp'ers spannen vaker een rechtszaak aan met claim werknemer te zijn | NPO Radio 1
- NPO Nieuwsuur: Werkgevers krijgen vaker te maken met rechtszaken waarbij een zzp'er claimt toch werknemer te zijn.
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