The duty to notify applies only to sole traders working in certain sectors. Does the self-employed person you hire work in one of these sectors? They will be required to notify and you will be required to check the notification. You have until five working days after the start of the assignment to check the notification.
These are sectors with the following Standard Industrial Classification (SBI code):
Division and class:
01 Agriculture and related service activities;
03.12 Freshwater fishing.
Divisions and classes:
10.1 Slaughterhouses and processing of meat;
10.2 Processing of fish;
10.3 Processing of potatoes, vegetables and fruit;
23 Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products;
24 Manufacture of basic metals;
25 Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment;
27 Manufacture of electrical equipment;
28 Manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified;
30 Manufacture of other transport equipment;
33 Repair and installation of machinery and equipment.
This includes the entire construction industry.
Group 49.4 Freight transport by road, unless the temporary work consists exclusively of transporting goods through the Netherlands without loading or unloading in the Netherlands (click here for more information on the transport sector).
Groups:
81.2 Cleaning activities; (this is the cleaning sector);
81.3 Landscape service activities. (this includes gardening work).
Groups:
86.1 Hospitals including mental health and substance abuse hospitals;
87.1 Residential nursing care;
87.2 Residential and day care for mental retardation;
87.3 Residential and day care for the disabled and elderly;
87.9 Social assistance with residential care to children and other persons (no elderly and disabled);
88.1 Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled;
88.9 Social work activities without accommodation (not for elderly and disabled).
The sector in which the self-employed person works is assessed on the basis of the following criteria:
being carried out in the Netherlands (work carried out by the self-employed person outside the Netherlands is not taken into account when determining the sector).
The work as described in the contract with you as a client.
