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Inside an office filing cabinet, a tiny courtroom is in session. A large payslip acts as counsel, facing a nervous company founder in the witness chair. Nearby are a salary envelope, a commission jar, and an overtime clock as evidence. Inside an office filing cabinet, a tiny courtroom is in session. A large payslip acts as counsel, facing a nervous company founder in the witness chair. Nearby are a salary envelope, a commission jar, and an overtime clock as evidence.
  • Human Resources

Variable Pay Can Quietly Raise the Dutch Holiday Allowance Bill

A court ruling turns commission and overtime into a payroll question small employers should not.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 8, 2026
A Dutch courtroom scene where an enormous payslip occupies the witness box, with a judge listening and the founder’s family, lawyer and accountant standing behind piles of binders. A Dutch courtroom scene where an enormous payslip occupies the witness box, with a judge listening and the founder’s family, lawyer and accountant standing behind piles of binders.
  • Human Resources

A Founder’s Income Story Can Become Courtroom Proof

Loss-of-maintenance claims can make BV salary, side income and adviser bills explain.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 7, 2026
A tiny framed alcohol licence props up one leg of a large café table carrying miniature figures representing staff, landlord, supplier, tax administration and family life, while an official hand prepares to remove it with tweezers. A tiny framed alcohol licence props up one leg of a large café table carrying miniature figures representing staff, landlord, supplier, tax administration and family life, while an official hand prepares to remove it with tweezers.
  • Human Resources

A Horeca Licence Lives in the Till, Not on the Wall

Bibob pressure turns weak cash trails into a governance question for cafés, bars and shisha.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 6, 2026
A restrained Dutch boardroom scene at a notary’s office. A founder gives a director a wrapped box of share papers while a payroll printer sits in an empty chair, stealing the deed and printing payslip-like streamers. The people look A restrained Dutch boardroom scene at a notary’s office. A founder gives a director a wrapped box of share papers while a payroll printer sits in an empty chair, stealing the deed and printing payslip-like streamers. The people look
  • Human Resources

When Succession Shares Meet Payroll, Evidence Carries the Risk

A Dutch court ruling shows why ownership, cost and motive matter before payroll sees.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 5, 2026
A senior fitter repairs a bathroom leak while simultaneously teaching a trainee seated at a tiny desk beside the pipes, with a customer holding a bucket and an unpaid invoice nearby. A senior fitter repairs a bathroom leak while simultaneously teaching a trainee seated at a tiny desk beside the pipes, with a customer holding a bucket and an unpaid invoice nearby.
  • Human Resources

Fewer Dutch Vacancies Leave Small Employers With Harder Choices

The shortage is easing on paper, but small firms still have to redesign work, hours, and payroll.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 3, 2026
A cramped café interior where the floor is made from neat layers of payslips and has risen almost to the ceiling. The owner bends under the ceiling while customers calmly drink coffee on shortened stools. A cramped café interior where the floor is made from neat layers of payslips and has risen almost to the ceiling. The owner bends under the ceiling while customers calmly drink coffee on shortened stools.
  • Human Resources

Dutch Wage Growth Slows, but the Payroll Bill Stays High

Small employers are not facing a wage shock anymore, only a harder.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
June 3, 2026
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European Workers Can Ease Dutch Shortages Only With a Real Bridge

For small employers, foreign recruitment starts with capacity, payroll discipline, and honest.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
May 30, 2026
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  • Human Resources

Retaining People Will Require Proof

Why the Dutch crisis-retention bill is really about payroll discipline, not free.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
May 23, 2026
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  • Human Resources

When a WhatsApp Message Becomes a €30,000 Mistake

A Dutch bakery-café owner fired an employee via WhatsApp over scheduling.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
January 22, 2026
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  • Human Resources

When Compliance Becomes Permission to Discriminate

FNV, the Netherlands' largest trade union, filed a complaint with the European Commission.
byLinda Pavan Geraedts
January 22, 2026
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