The employer may reduce the tax base for the remuneration of the posted worker by 30% of the value of the daily allowances. The provisions also prescribe the possibility of reducing the social security contribution base of the seconded employee. In this article, we will present the institution in question and explain how to apply it.

In the Netherlands, as in other EU countries, there is an obligation to notify the posting of employees. Failure to comply with this obligation results in negative consequences – both for the posting employer and the counterparty to which the workers are seconded. Therefore, it’s extremely important to know how to properly make the application.

Very often, persons starting work in Germany are surprised that Zeitkonto is used to settle their working time. Indeed, Polish law doesn’t provide for such a solution. For this reason, we encourage you to read our article. We explain here what Zeitkonto is.

As of 1 July 2023, the provisions changing the salary slip template became applicaple in France. A new item has been introduced to the pay slip: “net social amount”. Seemingly, the change in question isn’t drastic. However, this modification is of a great importance in reality. Why? We will explain it later in this article.

Groups of companies are created by enterprises with capital ties. These links are very strong. Therefore, it’s very common to post workers between enterprises belonging to the same group. If the secondment takes place to an entity belonging to a group of entrepreneurs and located in another Member State, it must fulfil the requirements determined in EU law.

On 26 April 2023, the legal solutions introduced by the Act of 9 March 2023 mending the Labour Code and certain other acts (Official Journal of 2023, item 641) came into force. One of the novelties is the change concerning the scope of information on employment conditions that the employer provides to the newly engaged worker. Moreover, the employer is obliged to give appropriate information to an employee going to work or perform a professional task abroad.

The Union legislation imposes an obligation on employers to report the posting of workers to the appropriate authorities of host countries. Therefore, each EU country has taken measures allowing to make such a notification, e.g. the SIPSI portal was created in France, and in Germany – ZOLL. Submitting a declaration is relatively easy in most countries. However, there is an exception to this rule. This is CLICLAVORO, i.e. the notification of the posting of employees to Italy.

In France, every employer is obliged to issue a pay slip (Bulletin de salaire/Fiche de paie/Bulletin de paie/Bulletin de paie clarifié) to a worker. Legal provisions strictly define what such a document should contain and what information can’t be included on it. In practice, these wage slips are created according to a scheme and thanks to that, there are very similar to each other. This allowed to prepare a short guide designed to “decipher” salary slip.

The Netherlands has become a very attractive destination for employees, including temporary workers. Therefore, more and more temp agencies decide to expand their activity to this country and register there. This article describes the most important issues related to setting up a temporary employment agency in the Netherlands.

One of the formalities which must be completed in connection with the departure of the employees to Germany is a posting declaration to the Customs Office. The failure to respect this obligation constitutes an offence punishable by a fine.

The German labour market is very popular among temporary workers. Therefore, many temp agencies from Poland decide to begin cooperation with user employers from the Federal Republic of Germany. However, before they start sending employees to work on the western side of Oder, they should complete numerous formalities. One of these is to obtain the authorization to lend workers in Germany.

It may happen that it becomes necessary to derogate from the general rules for determining the applicable legislation in the field of social security. In such cases, insurance corporations of two or more Member States may conclude the exceptional agreement to modify the general rules.