The well-known cigar from his own box has traditionally been a clever trick of employers. Just read the headlines in the media and you're back up. Shareholders should receive an extra bonus during this financially difficult period and think that the government should pay the wage costs of the employees in the company they invested in. Finally, they did not ask for the shutdown of the Dutch economy and the chimney of the shareholders must continue to smoke.

The government does not impose any conditions on the financial contributions that companies can receive. For example, entrepreneurs with staff, who expect a minimum of 20% loss of turnover for 3 months, can apply to the UWV for the temporary emergency measure bridging employment (NOW) scheme. The employer is obliged to use the subsidy to pay the wage costs, and the accounting firms and employers have found something about that.

The employer pays 100% wages and asks the employees to choose from:

  1. continue to work and if you do not accept the job offer you have to take leave
  2. taking unpaid leave (so you will not get your salary)
  3. taking leave (your salary is still paid, but you pay it in themselves (cigar out of your own box)
  4. the possibility to convert your holiday allowance into leave days
Although you can be positive about the employer's request, you cannot, of course, as an employer, choose to be supported by the government and have labour costs reduced by the (voluntary) contributions of your staff. #overheid
#UWV
#werknemers
#werkgevers
#NOW
#verlof
#vakantiegeld
#Tijdelijke Emergency bridgeemployment (NOW)

Employees pay the wage costs themselves