News item | 21-02-2025 | 14:30
Temporary employment agencies are also responsible for proper registration of labor migrants in the Personal Registration (BRP) registration. Minister Van Hijum of Social Affairs and Employment writes this in a letter to the House of Representatives. Now that responsibility is only with the labor migrant himself, so that many labor migrants are not correctly registered. In the plans, employment agencies must help labor migrants register and check whether it went well.
Minister Van Hijum: “Grip on migration starts with proper registration of labor migrants. We do not know exactly where they are from hundreds of thousands of labor migrants. We can’t reach them as a result. The labor migrant can also encounter all kinds of problems, such as being uninsured after losing a job. We must put the responsibility where it belongs: at the employment agencies that these people bring to the Netherlands. “
Labor migrants who want to stay in the Netherlands for more than four months must be registered as a resident within five days of arrival in the municipality where they will live. With a shorter stay they can register as a non-resident in the BRP. Too often it happens that labor migrants are wrongly in the BRP as a non-resident. Municipalities and other organizations experience the consequences of this. Due to poor registration, they have insufficient insight into where labor migrants are staying.
Labor migrants are and remain responsible for correct registration in the BRP. With this new measure, employers who lend labor migrants must offer support at the start of an employment contract with the registration. For example, by giving the right information in the language of the labor migrant. They must then also check with the labor migrant whether they are actually registered.
These measures become part of the Allocation of Workers Act by Intermediaries (Waadi). The rule applies to all employers who broadcast labor migrants.
Additional measures
The central government is focusing on several measures to improve the correct registration of labor migrants in the BRP. For example, the focus is on better awareness among labor migrants. Since 2022, the contact details of labor migrants have been registered as a non-resident when registering and this year we work on communication via e-mail to point out labor migrants to correct registration. In addition, labor migrants can go to regional physical and mobile workinnl information points for questions about registration in the BRP. These WorkinNL points are rolled out all over the country and the service is in several languages.