Putting together your own salary package is becoming increasingly popular: are you also entitled to it? How do you ‘buy’ extra leave? And what are the drawbacks? | Interior

More than half of the companies (54 percent) already give their employees the opportunity to put together part of their salary package themselves. Smartphones, company bicycles and extralegal holidays in particular are gaining in importance. These are also popular choices within a cafeteria plan. How does a cafeteria plan work? Is everyone entitled to it? And what advantage do I have as an employee? Ellen Roelants, payroll expert at HR services company Acerta, answers: “Attention: putting together your own salary package can have consequences for your pension.”