Entrepreneur’s role not given enough weight in VBAR Act
Labour law experts have called on the Dutch government to review the bill for the Dutch Assessment of Employment Relationships and Legal Presumption (Clarification) Act (‘VBAR’). Experts consider this legislative proposal, which aims to clarify the criteria for assessing employment relationships, as incomplete and impractical. Professor Barend Barentsen and Professor Stefan Sagel, both experts in labour law, discussed the issue on independent knowledge platform ZiPconomy.
The purpose of the VBAR Act is to simplify the qualification of employment relationships and crack down on false self-employment by providing clear guidelines on when somebody is and is not considered to be an entrepreneur, for example. Professor Sagel and Professor Barentsen believe that a worker’s employment status as an entrepreneur is not sufficiently factored into the legislative proposal. In their view, this does not align with Dutch Supreme Court case law.
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