For professionals
Self-employed and freelance work runs through Servorg, using a checklist we put to the client. Servorg decides whether the assignment really is self-employed or freelance work; if it does not pass, we do not offer it as such.
Our requirements for the self-employed professional are strict, and stricter still for the client. That sounds the wrong way around, and it is meant to be: most of the risk around bogus self-employment comes from how the assignment itself is set up: who directs the work, and whether it can be defined as a distinct piece of work. That is where the ground is won, so that is where we set the bar highest. The aim is to keep the risk of bogus self-employment as small as possible for everyone involved. And there is a second, more concrete reason: if it goes wrong, the bill lands with the client. That is why the bar is highest there.
If it does go wrong and the tax authority rules that the work was bogus self-employment, Servorg recovers the additional assessment and the fines from the client. That is what the terms say, and we would rather tell you beforehand than afterwards. It is exactly why we assess up front rather than after the fact: nobody wants that bill, and the only way to avoid it is to set the assignment up properly before anyone starts.
The bar is concrete. A self-employed assignment runs with us for a maximum of twenty-eight hours a week, and Servorg tests whether you are genuinely independent: can you decide how you do the work, and can you make your own decisions? If you sit in one chair forty hours a week inside a team that directs you, that is not a self-employed assignment: whatever the contract is called. By the time an assignment goes live with us as a self-employed assignment, that check has usually already been done. That is the intention and it nearly always works. If it cannot be arranged beforehand and the assignment then fails the check, we offer you the same assignment where possible as a secondment under one of our other brands. If that does not work either, we say so.
The Dutch Wtta act sets requirements for anyone who supplies labour. In our case that part sits with Servorg, together with employership, payroll and invoicing. For you that means one party that has to meet those requirements, and no intermediate link on our side. What applies from when is set out below.
| When | What happens |
|---|---|
| labour providers that want to use the transitional arrangement can register | |
| the act takes effect | |
| admission is applied for with the Dutch labour market authority | |
| the public register opens, so a hirer can look up a provider | |
| enforcement begins; from then on you may only hire from an admitted provider |
This is a timeline, not a law that already applies today. No labour provider has been admitted yet, our partner Servorg included, and we claim nothing of the sort. Checked on 10 August 2026 with the Dutch Labour Inspectorate and the Dutch labour market authority; dates in this file have shifted before.
The assessment is about the assignment, not about you as a person. Servorg uses a checklist to judge whether the work can be carried out as self-employed or freelance work, and we put that checklist to the client as well.
Then we do not offer it as self-employed work, but as a secondment through another of our brands. The assignment itself does not disappear.
The organisation where you do the work. Employership, payroll and invoicing run through Servorg; we find and support.
Whether an assignment can be self-employed or freelance work is assessed through Servorg's checklist. Which agreement fits depends on that outcome and on the assignment; ask about it in the first conversation.
That depends on the role and the assignment. We quote no amounts on this page; the rates sit with the brands and on What you earn.
Want to know what that assessment actually looks at? We have written out the three axes, with examples. When are you genuinely self-employed?
Want to know whether your assignment passes that assessment, or are you looking for one that does? Ask in the first conversation.