Checklist: Hiring staff for the first time

You are going to hire staff for the first time. Before you can take on a new employee, you need to arrange a number of things.

With this checklist, you tick off the most important things to make sure that you and your new colleague will soon be working under the right working conditions. And that you comply with all regulations. From registering yourself as an employer with the Netherlands Tax Administration, to paying your first payslip.

You will find the most important things to take care of by topic:

1. Cost of hiring staff
2. Register as an employer with the Netherlands Tax Administration
3. Recruit staff
4. Set up your personnel administration
5. Arrange good working conditions for your staff
6. Engage and retain staff

Download the checklist (pdf)

You can find the links in this checklist on this page, too.