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Sunday, night and holiday surcharges in the Netherlands — and why they go wrong

Dutch hospitality runs on surcharges. Sunday work, night hours and public holidays all pay more than a normal hour. The rules come from collective agreements, and every payroll bureau knows them. The problem is not the rules. The problem is counting them by hand from a WhatsApp conversation.

The three surcharges every planner deals with

Surcharge	When it applies	What goes wrong by hand
Sunday	Hours worked on Sunday	The shift that starts Saturday 23:00 and ends Sunday 02:00 — two of its three hours are Sunday hours, and hand-written rosters usually miss them.
Night	Work between 00:00 and 06:00	Planners argue about which hours count; the answer is the same every time, and only a machine does it consistently.
Holiday	Public holidays	Combined with Sunday or night, the stacking gets complicated — and mistakes always cost someone.

In Rosterly, every shift shows its true cost while you plan — surcharges included. The Saturday-overnight-into-Sunday case above is counted correctly, split hour by hour. You see the number before the week is published, not on the invoice after it.

Why this matters before payday

A roster with three Sunday shifts and one overnight is a small spreadsheet. But small spreadsheets repeat every week, and every repetition is a chance to underpay someone — or to overpay and quietly lose money. The Dutch working-hours rules and the surcharge rules are exactly the kind of arithmetic software should own.

See how Rosterly counts it — open the demo