Rivermate

Routebeschrijving Website

The better way of paying your remote employees - payrolling made easy.

Rivermate is designed to help CEOs and business owners expand their services and products to the global market by removing the complexity of hiring and paying remote employees. With best-in-class tools and services, Rivermate enables companies to hire anyone, anywhere. As an Employer of Record (EOR), Rivermate will take care of payroll, compliance, and benefits so that you can focus on your business. Rivermate has the solutions you need to get your company into the global market without draining out your pocket.

19/10/2026

A US-based educational travel organization had one employee based in the Netherlands, paid on an annual salary arrangement that didn’t meet Dutch payment interval requirements. The structure also created gaps in holiday allowance (vakantiegeld) calculation and other statutory protections.

The fix: a correctly structured monthly payroll, with tax withholding and holiday allowance calculated according to Dutch law. The company described the process as feeling like an extension of their own organization rather than a vendor relationship.

The result: full Dutch compliance and about three hours a week of HR administration saved. Rivermate handled the transition, contracts, payroll, and ongoing compliance, without the company needing to build Dutch employment expertise in-house.

👉 Read the full story: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0zbFtY0

12/10/2026

A US-based company opens a small engineering office in Berlin with six developers. Within the first year, three decide to form a works council. The company's Head of People, based in San Francisco, has never heard of a Betriebsrat.

Here's what they're about to learn: employees cannot be blocked from forming a works council, and once established, it can have significant influence over workplace decisions. A dismissal made without the required consultation is automatically void, even if the grounds for termination are otherwise legitimate.

For companies used to at-will employment, this is a fundamentally different legal framework. Rivermate helps companies understand works council obligations and navigate their impact on day-to-day operations. If you're hiring or expanding in Germany, reply with your headcount and we'll send you the relevant details.

05/10/2026

Denmark's labor market runs on what's often called "flexicurity": employers can hire and let go relatively easily by European standards, while employees benefit from strong unemployment support and active retraining programs funded through the system. It's a genuinely different bargain than most of Europe operates under.

For companies hiring in Denmark, this means faster, more flexible workforce planning, paired with an ATP pension contribution system that runs differently from most European pension models.

Hiring in Denmark? Reply “Denmark” and we’ll share what to know about flexicurity and ATP before your first hire.

28/09/2026

Every HR team that's switched EOR providers has a version of this story: a contract clause, a benefits structure, something that worked before, and a provider whose answer is simply 'not supported.

Flexibility isn't a nice-to-have layered on top of compliance, it's what makes the compliance actually usable day to day. Rivermate adapts to how your company already operates, with custom contracts and tailored guidance.

👉 Book a free 30-minute HR consultation: https://rivermate.com/book-a-demo

22/09/2026

The funding round closed Friday. Monday morning, the roadmap says three new engineering hires this quarter, and at least one of them is likely to be outside the country the company is incorporated in.

Nobody budgeted time for entity registration, local tax IDs, or drafting a compliant contract from scratch: the plan was to hire, not to become an expert in another country's labor law by Thursday.

Rivermate gets that first international hire under a compliant contract in days, not months.

✔️ Book a free 30-minute HR consultation: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yvLxN0

14/09/2026

Your EOR provider just told you they can't hire in the country where your best candidate lives. That's what happened to Kaleidos, the Madrid-based team behind open-source design platform Penpot. They wanted to hire one employee in Andorra. Their existing EOR couldn't cover it.

Andorra isn't an EU member state. It runs its own labor framework, requires an employer-led Active Residency Permit with an annual foreign worker quota, and mandates all contracts in Catalan. Kaleidos had no in-country contacts, no exposure to Andorran employment law, and a candidate they didn't want to lose to a slow process.

Rivermate completed the hire, with both the employment contract and work permit, in roughly one month. As Marta Ardizone, Kaleidos's People and Culture Lead, put it: "Every country has its own employment rules, and Andorra is quite particular, complicated, and difficult. We needed someone who really understood how everything worked."

Read the full case study: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yhx6P0

07/09/2026

A growing number of companies, across industries and countries, have piloted four-day workweeks in recent years, often finding that focused hours and clear outcomes matter more than total hours logged.

Results have been genuinely interesting: many pilots report steady or improved productivity alongside higher reported employee wellbeing, though how it plays out for any one employee often depends on where they're based. That's where the real question sits for global HR teams: if someone on your team asked for this tomorrow, would you know whether it's a policy decision you can grant freely, or a legal requirement tied to their specific country?

Whether you're exploring a four-day workweek or other flexible work models, Rivermate helps you evaluate local employment requirements so you can implement changes with confidence.

🎯 Book a free 30-minute HR consultation: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0y5Wb70

31/08/2026

A severance payment that looks like a clean lump sum on paper can be taxed very differently depending on where the employee is based. For example, in Denmark, certain severance payments benefit from partial tax exemptions depending on structure and tenure. Meanwhile, in Austria, the "Abfertigung Neu" system routes severance-style contributions through an ongoing employer-funded scheme rather than a single payout. Lastly, in Estonia, severance is generally treated as regular taxable income, with fewer special exemptions than neighboring systems.

Assuming one tax treatment across all three produces a wrong number in at least one of them. Rivermate applies the correct severance tax treatment market by market, across 180+ countries.

📌 Book a free 30-minute HR consultation: https://rivermate.com/book-a-demo

24/08/2026

The 30% ruling has been one of the Netherlands' biggest draws for incoming skilled talent for years: a portion of salary paid tax-free to offset relocation cost. Recent reforms have scaled the benefit back and tightened who qualifies, and a lot of offer letters still quote it at its old value.

An offer built around an outdated version of the ruling either overpromises to the candidate or underprices the true cost of the hire for the company. Neither is a good place to find out you were wrong.

Rivermate prices Dutch offers against the current version of the ruling, not last decade's, as part of our expert and tailored employment support.

🎯 Book a free 30-minute HR consultation: https://rivermate.com/book-a-demo

17/08/2026

The best relocation experiences tend to share a few things in common: a clear timeline shared early, a single point of contact throughout the process, and coordination between the home and host country so nothing falls between the two. In Germany, for example, new residents complete Anmeldung, formal address registration, within two weeks of arrival. It's a small step, but it unlocks a bank account, a tax ID, and more, easy to plan for well in advance once the timeline is clear from day one.

Employees remember how a move was handled, often more than almost any other part of their employment experience. Getting this right is one of the clearest ways a company can show it genuinely supports its people through a big transition.

Rivermate coordinates relocation and mobility support from a single point of contact, across 180+ countries.

🎯 Book a free 30-minute HR consultation: https://rivermate.com/book-a-demo

Adres

Herengracht 420
Amsterdam
1017BZ

Website

http://www.rivermate.com/

Meldingen

Wees de eerste die het weet en laat ons u een e-mail sturen wanneer Rivermate nieuws en promoties plaatst. Uw e-mailadres wordt niet voor andere doeleinden gebruikt en u kunt zich op elk gewenst moment afmelden.