Contracting in the Netherlands

[teejaydee]

My agency has told me I must be on its payroll in order to comply with Dutch employment law. I wonder if this is true. In spite of the application of the "30% rule", I have been told that my net pay will be only 65% of my gross contract rate. This is a higher rate of deductions than I was expecting.

Does anyone have any experience of alternative ways of working in the Netherlands?

[tim123]

Your agency is basically right. There are instances of people not working this way in NL but only with agreement of the agency (who are taking a big risk in letting them do so). If your agents have already decided not to take the risk then that's it.

tim