A documented compliance baseline, fixed fee
We check your Dutch entity against the employment obligations it actually carries, then deliver a written baseline and the corrected documents to match. A defined project with a fixed fee and a finish line.
The contracts came from the group template, the handbook came from head office, and the sector position was never formally determined. That holds until an inspection, a pension fund letter, a wage claim or a dismissal puts the paperwork in front of someone who reads it properly.
This is a one-off, fixed-fee check and clean-up. A senior consultant scans the entity, gives you a written baseline of where you stand, and rewrites the documents that need it, so you can evidence your position rather than hope it holds.
Six concrete outputs, each written down and handed over at the end.
Every contract type in use is reviewed clause by clause, with a written list of what to change.
A written determination of whether a collective agreement applies to your activity, and what follows if it does.
A documented assessment of mandatory sector pension exposure for your entity.
Handbook, leave, absence, privacy and monitoring policies rewritten to Dutch standard in English and Dutch.
Works council, whistleblowing and reporting duties mapped to your growth plan, each with an owner and a date.
Your contractor population and risk inventory position are reviewed and documented alongside the rest.
What a documented baseline is worth when someone finally asks.
A written baseline turns assumptions into something your board, your auditor and your parent company can rely on.
Scope, cost and deliverables are agreed before we start. This is a project with a finish line, not an open retainer.
Exposure is far cheaper to correct while nobody is claiming. Discovering it mid-dispute or mid-audit is not.
The threshold roadmap tells you what changes at which headcount, so growth stops quietly creating new obligations.
Anonymised projects across growth, template contracts and sector questions.
The Dutch entity crossed fifty employees during a hiring push and nobody flagged what changed at that point. The parent had assumed local staff would raise anything important.
The scan produced a threshold roadmap with named owners and dates. Representation and whistleblowing obligations were addressed in the same quarter rather than after a request landed.
All twenty employees sat on a translated parent contract, including a probation clause and a non-compete lifted straight from the US template.
The clause check identified which provisions gave no protection at all. A new Dutch contract set was drafted and signed across the team within six weeks.
A pension provider query prompted the parent to ask whether a sector agreement applied to the Dutch entity. No determination had ever been made or written down.
A written CAO and pension determination was delivered in under three weeks, with the pay scale comparison the finance team needed to budget the answer.
Client situations are anonymised. Names and identifying details have been changed.
Findings inside three weeks, full document set inside seven.
We map the entity, payroll setup, every contract type in use and the full contractor population.
A written determination of collective agreement and sector pension applicability for your activity.
Contracts, handbook and core policies are rewritten to Dutch standard in English and Dutch.
Obligations are mapped to your headcount plan with an owner and a date each, then handed over.
You get a written scope and a fixed fee before any work begins, so the cost is settled at the start instead of arriving as an hourly invoice at the end of the month.
Foreign-owned Dutch entities that need their position documented.
Dutch entities of foreign parents that have never had a compliance review
Companies approaching or passing fifty employees in the Netherlands
Groups preparing for due diligence, audit or an internal control review
Entities that grew fast on head office templates and never looked back
Cost, duration, scope and where it stops.
A fixed fee against an agreed scope, quoted before we start. You know the cost of the scan, the determinations and the document set up front, with no hourly meter running.
For an entity of up to roughly fifty people, the scan and written findings typically take two to three weeks. Remediated contracts and policies follow over the next three to four weeks.
One-off by design. It delivers a baseline and a corrected document set with a defined end. Many clients then keep a consultant on call through our advisory service, but that is a separate decision.
Compliance builds the baseline your entity should be able to evidence at any time. Labour law advice applies to a live decision already in front of you, such as a dismissal or a long-term absence case.
Book a free 30 minute consultation. We will look at your situation, tell you exactly what we would do, and put a fixed price in writing before you commit to anything.
