The labour market is changing. Tentoo helps you move with the times.
The labour market is changing fast. The number of self-employed contractors has soared and for many entrepreneurs, the need for a flexible workforce continues to grow. On 1 January 2020, the Dutch Balanced Labour Market Act (WAB) came into force. This Act aims to make permanent employment less permanent and flex-work less flexible. The good news: under these new laws and regulations, you can still deploy employees on a flexible basis.
Many benefits
If you pay employees via Tentoo with an agency contract, you can deploy them for up to 4 years without needing to give them a permanent contract. So maximum flexibility! There are many additional benefits too. We are responsible for your employer’s duties and risks, you benefit from our unique online matching platform and you retain control 24/7 via our state-of-the-art digital portal.
And: it's quick and easy to start!
YOUR BENEFITS
You can deploy employees flexible for up to 4 years.
You manage your employees yourself.
Tentoo continues salary payments during an employee's sick leave.
No WAB-related concerns
Tentoo bears the labour law risks.
No concerns about payroll administration.
Salary costs are pre-financed.
Salary payments are arranged.
PAY EMPLOYEES WITH AN AGENCY CONTRACT
You can employ staff without risks for 4 years.
If you employ staff through us with an agency contract, you benefit from maximum flexibility and optimal service. You can deploy employees on a flexible basis for as long as 4 years. And we are responsible for your duties and risks as an employer.
Wat is an agency contract?
An agency contract is an employment contract between three parties: the employer, the hiring company (you) and the legal employer (Tentoo). The employee works for your organisation, but is on our payroll. As the legal employer, we are responsible for:
- Salary payments
- Deduction of social insurance premiums and payroll taxes
- Pre-financing of salary costs
- Issuing payslips
- Absence management
- Continued salary payments for employees on sick leave
Exclusiveness and allocation
If you deploy a worker with an agency contract, they may not be made available solely to your organisation. A flex-worker must also be able to work (part-time) for another hiring company. You benefit from flexibility, but so does your employee. Through the ‘allocation function’, the WAB also obliges us to help ‘bring together supply and demand’ in working with agency contracts. We do this with our matching platform (more information below).
Peaks, troughs and risk-free growth
Employers outsource the remuneration of employees for varying reasons. One employer wants to grow with minimum risks, while another wishes to accommodate peaks and troughs in the supply of work. Furthermore, many entrepreneurs are simply glad to outsource their employer’s responsibilities, including all the accompanying duties and risks.
Flexible deployment of employees for up to 4 years
As a provider of flexible employment, we can apply the Dutch Collective Agreement for Temporary Employees (‘CAO voor uitzendkrachten’). The CAO stipulates that employees may be deployed flexibly for up to 4 years. And that benefits you as the hiring company. Depending on their employment record, employees are assigned to categories in the phase system of the NBBU (Dutch Association of Intermediary Organizations and Temporary Employment Agencies). This is the phase structure:
PHASE 1-2
Duration: 52 worked weeks
An unlimited number of temporary employment contracts may be entered during this phase.
PHASE 3
Duration: maximum of 3 years
You may offer the employee a fixed-term employment contract on six occasions.
PHASE 4
Duration: indefinite
After 4 years of flexible employment, the employee is entitled to a permanent contract.
FIND EMPLOYEES VIA OUR MATCHING PLATFORM
The platform makes matching easy.
You have access to our unique matching platform. This online platform helps you quickly find the best candidate for your vacancy or assignment. Simply post your vacancy and everyone on the matching platform can apply.
Our platform has over 20,000 flex-workers. We help you draw up the vacancy posts and screen the candidates. Found a match and want to deploy the candidate? Thanks to the seamless integration with our back-office system Pay4me, our ‘match’ can start working for you on a flexible basis within a day.
Benefits of the matching platform:
- Free vacancies tool
- More than 20,000 flex-workers can see your vacancies
- Match with cadidates who are known and unknown to you
- Screening of profiles for suitable candidates
- Help drawing up vacancy posts
- Link to your account in our online HR portal Pay4me
User-friendly digital portal
The matching platform is integrated in our digital portal Pay4me. This portal gives you 24/7 insight into your (flexible) employees online: from contracts and hours worked to payslips and invoices. You can also make your own salary calculations easily in Pay4me. Since the WAB came into force, every employee has been entitled to a transition allowance from the first working day. Our transition allowance indicator shows the current amount of this allowance. Your flex-workers are given their own Pay4me account in which they can approve their hours worked, view their payslips and edit their personal data..
Your employees in good hands
As a legal employer of thousands of freelancers and flex-workers, good employership is very important to us. And that means much more than timely salary payments. We support employees during sick leave and reintegration, offer a pension scheme and lots of collective discounts. Your flex-workers also have unlimited access to our online learning environment called 'Academy for Flex'.
Full or partial health insurance
Tentoo offers two types of agency contracts: one with full health insurance and one with partial health insurance. What type suits you the best?
Full health insurance
You are fully protected if your employees become ill. Tentoo continues salary payments if an employee is absent through illness. In that respect, you have no obligations.
We reserve the holiday allowance, holiday days and public holidays.
This variant is frequently used for employees who work for a hiring company for a fixed number of hours over a longer period.
Partial health insurance
If an employee becomes ill, you are initially responsible for their salary. After 10 (or more) days of sick leave, Tentoo takes over the payment. This means that you do not bear any risks in the event of long-term illness.
We pay the holiday allowance and holiday days in excess of the statutory minimum.
This variant is frequently used for on-call employees, employees who work for few hours for a hiring company and for employees who work for hiring companies for shorter periods. Because you bear no risks, the conversion factor for this variant is more favourable.
We may need more people for one event than another, as well as different types of employees. Thanks to Tentoo, that’s possible."
Cynthia Boven, General Manager M&F Security
EASY TO START
Payment of employees via Tentoo is quick and easy. In three steps, an employee can start work for you within a day.
‘Match’ with a suitable candidate via our matching platform.
Make working agreements with the employee and notify us of them digitally.
We do all the administration and the employee can even start work for you on the same day.
PAY EMPLOYEES WITH A PAYROLL CONTRACT
Working with agency contracts is not the best solution in every situation. We therefore also offer ‘payment with a payroll contract’. This offers slightly less flexibility but does offer the option of recruiting and selecting employees yourself and ensuring that they work exclusively for you. More information? Read our digital brochure.
TENTOO: PARTNER OF ENTREPRENEURS
Tentoo supports easy enterprise among employers, freelancers and self-employed people. We’ve been doing this since 1992. How? We remove concerns, risks and obstacles surrounding payments and employership. On an annual basis, we pay thousands of employees at more than 11,000 companies and support thousands of freelancers throughout the Netherlands. We also support self-employed contractors with their back-offices and offer various HR services to employees on the payroll of entrepreneurs.
Brisker Group
Together with Holland Employment Experts and Pay for People, Tentoo is part of the Brisker Group: the largest legal employer of flexible labour in the Netherlands. Thanks to this alliance, the Brisker Group can help any entrepreneur with any employment issue.
QUESTIONS?
Do you have any questions about hiring employees with an agency contract? Drop your question or comment below and one of our consultants will contact you.