Wijzigingsgeschiedenis

- p. **local usage:** what is standard practice locally at the foreign representations of the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and the European Union. If there are fewer than three of the aforementioned foreign representations in the place where the mission is located, HDPO will designate one or more other foreign representations established locally, after consultation with the head of mission;

- r. **3W:** the director of 3W WorldWide Working (3W **WereldWijd Werken**) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

5. The right to give an advisory opinion as referred to in paragraph 4 does not apply to:

- b. thb adoption, amendment or withdrawal of a mission version in connection with an amendment to these Regulations that entails the adoption, amendment or withdrawal of a number of mission versions.

##### Article 4.1. Job evaluation, pay scales, pay numbers and salary amounts

2. Each pay scale consists of 16 pay numbers.

##### Article 4.3. The pay scale, pay number and salary amount applicable to an employee

2. The salary amount received by an employee is based on the applicable pay scale and pay number. At the start of employment, an employee is assigned the lowest pay number unless there are special circumstances which warrant a higher pay number. In the case of a part-time employment contract, the salary amount is reduced proportionately.

##### Article 4.7. Emergency service allowance

- a. 8% for a non-specialised in-house emergency officer;

1. An employee’s salary is fixed as a gross amount.

##### Article 4.9. Payment of gross or net salary; local tax liability

- b. the amount of tax owed locally by the employee on the salary; or

##### Article 4.10. Payment of net salary; Dutch tax liability

- b. the amount of tax that the employee would owe locally if the local tax authorities levied the tax payable locally on the employee’s salary, without taking into account any personal deductions the employee or their family members would have been entitled to.

3. In calculating the amount of salaries tax owed in the Netherlands, the employer takes account of the general tax credit and employment tax credit prescribed in the [Salaries Tax Act 1964](https://wetten.overheid.nl/jci1.3:c:BWBR0002471) or comparable tax credits, by whatever name they are known.

5. If the employer has remitted too much salaries tax to the Dutch tax authorities, the employee is required to cooperate in claiming a refund of the excess tax from the Dutch tax authorities. If the employee fails to cooperate, an amount equal to the excess tax will be withheld from the employee’s salary.

##### Article 4.11. Payment of gross or net salary; double tax liability

2. Salaries tax owed in the Netherlands is payable and remitted by the employer.

### § 5. Official travel and travel for the purposes of training

- b. for the air travel portion of a journey, with the exception of costs necessarily and demonstrably incurred for meals on board;

7. The employer may grant a lower allowance for subsistence costs than under the rules referred to in paragraph 3 if an employee undertakes frequent official trips and if the employer deems that this is warranted in view of the nature of the work or the travel conditions.

1. An employee who undertakes an official trip or a trip for the purposes of training lasting at least seven days, including days spent in transit, is eligible for reimbursement of the costs necessarily incurred to launder clothes the employee expects to wear again during the trip.

3. An employee who undertakes an official trip or a trip for the purposes of training is eligible for reimbursement of the costs of vaccination and medication prescribed by the occupational health service in so far as such costs are not reimbursed under health insurance or otherwise.

1. The employer may provide fair indemnification to an employee, except in the cases referred to in paragraph 2.

3. In the event of permanent disability the payment is not more than 3 times the gross salary amount applicable at the mission concerned to the maximum pay number of pay scale 7, multiplied by 12. In the event of death the payment is 1.5 times the gross salary amount applicable at the mission concerned to the maximum pay number of pay scale 7, multiplied by 12.

4. Payments under these Regulations are made in the country where the mission is located.

### Chapter 5. Social provisions, occupational health support, sickness and pregnancy

- b. all or part of the amount which the employer would pay in social insurance contributions if the local social security system applied to the employee is to be paid to the employee.

### § 5. Occupational health support

- b. if the employee has proved to be no longer fully fit to perform their duties and it is necessary to ascertain whether this is due to medical factors and, if so, whether the employee may be deemed fit to perform a different job; or

The employee is required to cooperate with such a medical examination.

##### Article 5.12. Article 5.12 Limitation of pay entitlement

- a. if the sickness has been feigned or has in any event been exaggerated to such an extent that unfitness for work due to sickness cannot be presumed;

- b. if the employee has caused the unfitness for work due to sickness intentionally or through gross negligence, unless the employee cannot be held responsible for this owing to the mental state of the employee;

- d. during a period that the employee:

- a. annul the termination of her employment contract within two months of termination by sending written notification to this effect to the head of mission; or

3. Any claim in connection with an annulment as referred to in paragraph 2 (a) is subject to a limitation period of six months from the date on which termination took effect.

- c. raising the alarm in emergencies and evacuating all employees and other people at the mission.

### § 2. Staff residences

- b. the employee enters the service of another Dutch central government body within a month after the termination of employment; or

##### Article 6.12. Training on the employee’s initiative

1. Employees who take the initiative to undergo training may at their request be fully or partially reimbursed for the necessary costs of training or granted paid training leave, if training is the interests of the service.

### § 4. Introductory interviews, staff interviews and assessments

##### Article 6.20. Article 6.20 Priority in the event of job vacancies

2. A job loser who expresses interest within two weeks in a vacancy as referred to in paragraph 1 that:

2. If a job loser is employed in another job for fewer hours than the job loser is currently employed to work, the employment contract is terminated in respect of the additional hours with effect from the date on which the job ceases to exist unless the employment contract is for a fixed term and automatically ends on that date. In special cases the employer may set a later date.

##### Article 6.22. Redundancy payment in the event of reorganisation

3. If a job loser does not accept an offer of continued employment for a reduced number of hours or on a lower scale and the employment contract is subsequently terminated in full, the job loser will be compensated in accordance with paragraph 1.

##### Article 6.24. Contribution towards training costs

2. The contribution is paid on submission of an invoice from a recognised educational institution.

##### Article 6.25. Training leave

2. If the employer considers that it is not in the interests of the service to grant leave as referred to in paragraph 1, the job loser is granted one hour’s gross pay for every hour of leave not granted for that reason, subject to a maximum of twice the full-time equivalent of the job loser’s gross monthly salary.

##### Article 6.27. Contribution amounts

##### Article 6.28. Contribution towards removal and refurbishment costs

7. The exchange rate applicable at the time is used to calculate the allowances referred to in paragraphs 2 and 4 that are paid in currencies other than euros.

##### Article 6.30. Internal candidate status

### Chapter 7. Prohibition of entry, suspension, compensation, dereliction of duty and disciplinary penalties

- f. suspension for a fixed period with all or part of the employee’s salary withheld;

### Chapter 8. End of an employment contract

2. If, in the absence of an objection from either party, the employment contract is renewed after the expiry of the period referred to in paragraph 1, it will be deemed to have been entered into once again under the same conditions that previously applied and for the same period subject to a maximum of one year on each renewal.

##### Article 8.2. Termination of an open-ended employment contract

- c. the employer has terminated the employment contract due to a seriously culpable act or omission by the employee;

The transition redundancy payment amounts to half a month’s salary for each year the employment contract or successive employment contracts have been in effect.

5. If a transition redundancy payment or an old age pension redundancy payment as referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 has already been made for a part of the duration of the employment contract or successive employment contracts, this period will not count towards the payment referred to in paragraph 1 or 2.

### § 2. End of an employment contract due to sickness, retirement, death or a compelling reason

- a. annul the termination within two months thereof by sending written notification to that effect to the employer; or

5. Paragraph 1 does not apply to termination during the probationary period.

1. The death of the employee ends the employment contract. From the day after the death of the employee, no further salary is paid.

3. If the deceased has no surviving partner or dependent children, the lump sum referred to in paragraph 2 may be used in whole or part to cover the costs of the employee’s final illness and funeral expenses, if the estate of the deceased is insufficient for these purposes.

##### Article 8.7. End of an employment contract when an employee is missing

##### Article 8.8. Termination of an employment contract for a compelling reason

- c. if termination takes place solely because the employee refuses to perform assigned duties due to a serious conscientious objection;

3. Paragraph 1 does not apply to termination during the probationary period, or to lawful termination for a compelling reason or due to serious dereliction of duty.

- 2°. the amount of the provisions referred to in this chapter to which the employee is entitled on other grounds;

- e. qualifying salary: the salary amount, calculated over a period of one year, belonging to the pay scale and the pay number which last applied to the employee, for which purpose the salary amount is taken to be that which applies to the pay scale and the pay number at the moment of payment, on the understanding that if the salary amount referred to above is less than the salary amount previously applicable, the latter is treated as the qualifying salary until the salary amount at the moment of payment is equal to or higher than the salary amount previously applicable. This amount is increased by the allowances referred to in chapter 4, part 2 (as at the moment of payment), calculated over a period of one year, in so far as such allowances were granted for an open-ended period or for a period of at least five consecutive years immediately preceding the termination of the employment contract. If on the date of payment of the supplement major changes have been made to the system of pay scales and pay numbers that most recently applied to the employee, 3W must reasonably and fairly reposition the employee’s most recent salary amount within the structure in use at that moment for the purposes of calculating the qualifying salary.

##### Article 9.4. Supplementation of old age pensions; general provisions

- a. before 1 January 2005: multiple employment contracts that succeeded one another at intervals of no more than 31 days;

- b. for the period of the employment contract after 1 January 2005: 1.5% of the qualifying salary multiplied by the qualifying period for supplementation.

- a. unless the employee has paid for such provisions solely on a voluntary basis without any contribution from the employer;

- b. unless and in so far as the entitlement was accrued outside the period of the employment contract.

4. The supplement referred to in paragraph 1 is granted to an ex-employee with effect from the pension date or, if a new employment contract is concluded immediately following the pension date, with effect from the date that the employment contract is terminated, but not if the ex-employee is under 60 years of age. Entitlement ends on the first day of the month following the month in which the ex-employee dies.

##### Article 9.5. Supplementation of surviving dependants’ benefits; general provisions

4. If the employee or ex-employee’s marriage, registered partnership or cohabitation agreement, as referred to in paragraph 3, ends other than as a result of the death of the employee or ex-employee, the partner will cease to have any entitlement under this part.

##### Article 9.6. Supplementation of surviving partners’ benefits

2. If the partner was more than 10 years younger than the employee or ex-employee, the supplement for the surviving partner is reduced by 2.5% for each entire year that the age difference exceeded 10 years. This reduction does not apply if, on the date of death of the employee or ex-employee, the surviving partner had been the partner of the employee or ex-employee for at least five years.

- a. surviving dependants’ benefits to which entitlement exists under the applicable social security system;

4. The supplement referred to in paragraph 1 is granted to the surviving dependant with effect from the first day of the month following the month in which the employee or ex-employee died. The provision of the supplement ends:

- b. on the first day of the month following the month in which the surviving dependant dies;

##### Article 9.7. Supplementation of orphan’s benefits

- a. orphans’ benefits to which entitlement exists under the applicable social security system;

##### Article 9.8. Supplementation of invalidity benefits; general provisions

- a. 70% if the termination of employment referred to in paragraph 1 took place before 1 January 2005;

- b. 60% if the termination of employment referred to in paragraph 1 took place on or after 1 January 2005.

- a. all provisions to which the employee is entitled by virtue of the termination of the employment contract, including in any event those under the applicable social security system;

- c. the ex-employee dies; or

5. Paragraph 4 (d) does not apply if the invalidity is, in the opinion of the employer, largely due to the nature of the duties which the employee was instructed to perform or to the special circumstances in which they had to be performed and is not attributable to the employee’s fault or actions.

##### Article 9.10. Fixing and payment of supplements

5. The amount of the one-off payment is calculated using the formulas established by HDPO for this purpose, which in any event take account of the following:

6. Paragraph 4 may be applied **mutatis mutandis** by the employer to an employee or ex-employee who is not yet receiving a supplement and whose employment contract or successive employment contracts has/have lasted for 15 years or less, if the mission where the person concerned is or was most recently employed has been closed or is scheduled to close within six months and no employees are or will be employed in that country after the closure.

8. If special costs are incurred as a result of the payment of a supplement, these may be deducted from the supplement.

##### Article 10.1. Transitional provision concerning social plans

##### Article 10.2. Entry into force

##### Article 10.2a. Transitional provisions concerning one-off redundancy payments

- −. the Mission Version for Costa Rica 2020;

- −. the Mission Version for the United States of America 2020.

##### Article 10.3. Short title

| policy officer | scale 9 |

| senior policy officer | scale 10 |