Contract for services. For the freelancer with a client, and the holding that takes on assignments.
Describe what you deliver, how you work, your rate and the duration. We add the rules of the law and warn you if your situation looks like an employment contract. Or choose the shorter engagement letter.
Make the contractGeneral terms as well?What the law provides
The main rules from article 7:400 to 7:413 Dutch Civil Code. You may depart from most of them in the contract.
| Care | You work with the care of a good contractor (7:401). |
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| Instructions | You follow timely and sound instructions on the performance (7:402). |
| Doing it yourself | If the assignment was given to you personally, you do it yourself, unless you may bring someone in (7:404). |
| Fee | Nothing agreed? Then the usual or a reasonable fee (7:405). |
| Termination | The client can always terminate. You as a business only for an indefinite term, or for compelling reasons (7:408). |
| Private client | A private client pays no compensation on termination (7:408(3)). |
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Frequently asked questions
Then the presumption takes effect. If someone works for a client at a low hourly rate, an employment contract is presumed. The client must prove otherwise. The law says €36 per hour, the government mentions €38. The amount on 31 December is still to follow. It does not apply if your client is a private person.
Not on its own. The court looks at all circumstances together: the work, the duration, who decides how you work, whether you are part of the organisation, whether you may send someone else, your rate and whether you act as an entrepreneur. What the parties intended does not decide.
No, not if you invoice your own company privately. That is salary. If your holding provides management to your operating company, use the management agreement.
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