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Employers pay lower unemployment benefit contributions for permanent employment contracts and higher contributions for flexible contracts. Employees with a permanent employment contract are allowed to work overtime for up to 30% beside their regular hours. As long as employees do not exceed that percentage of overtime, employers do not have to pay a higher rate of WW-premiums. As soon as an employee works more overtime than 30% during a whole year, the higher rate applies retrospectively.
This maximum percentage for overtime does not apply for employment contracts of 35 hours per week or more: these contracts will be exempt from this rule. On 1 January 2025 this threshold will be reduced to 30 hour per week or more. As a result employers will not have to pay the higher unemployment contribution rate if the amount of overtime worked is more than 30%. This provides more flexibility.
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