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New rules for secondment
If your employees are temporarily seconded to another European country (EEA country or Switzerland) to execute specific activities for you there, it is important to take account of any statutory provisions and obligations in the country of employment which must be observed – regardless of which country’s law applies to the employment agreement of a given employee.
To illustrate this, we include two examples of information/registration obligations in effect in most of the relevant countries:
- Certain documents, such as payslips and working hours overviews, must be present at the workplace;
- Foreign service providers must indicate in advance where and when and with which employees a project is to be executed in the country of employment.
If you fail to satisfy such requirements, you could incur substantial financial penalties.
The aforementioned requirements all fall within the scope of European Enforcement Directive 2014/67/EU, which obliges member states to convert specific EU regulations for protecting seconded employees into their own law. In Belgium, the conversion was effected by means of the Act of 11 December 2016, in the Netherlands, by means of the Employment Conditions for Seconded Employees in the European Union Act (WagwEU), which came into effect on 18 June 2016.
How can Interfisc be of service to you?
If you are not sure how the above-mentioned provisions could apply to your firm or what you must do in such cases, please do not hesitate to contact us. We’ll be happy to provide you with the assistance you require.
Whom to contact at Interfisc:
• Voor Belgium: Dirk Laruelle, consult@interfisc.eu, tel. 0032 (0)3 825 5003
• Voor the Netherlands: Roelof Bos, consult@interfisc.eu, tel. 0031 (0)70 313 3080
For France we refer you directly to the website of the relevant authorities (www.service-public.fr) -> click here
Should you have any queries, kindly contact Paul Wisselink of Wisselink Avocats in Parijs (pw@wisselinkavocats.com, tel. 0033 (0)1 5533 1300)
For Germany we refer you directly to the website of the relevant authorities (www.zoll.de) -> click here
Should you have any queries, kindly contact Alexander Crämer of Anwaltskanzlei Strick in Kleve, (craemer@strick.de, tel. 0049 (0) 2821 72220, www.strick.de)
For the United Kingdom we refer you directly to the website of the relevant authorities (www.gov.uk) -> click here
Should you have any queries, kindly contact the Outsourcing department of Try Lunn & Co in Hull (finance@trylunn.com, tel. 0044 (0) 1482 325765, www.trylunn.com)
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