Redactionele normen

WorkDaten bestaat om het plannen van werkende leven in Europa te vergemakkelijken. Elke pagina – werkdagencalculator, feestdagenkalender, salarisbenchmark, btw-regel, visumgids – is gebouwd om de lezer een duidelijk, verifieerbaar antwoord in zijn taal te geven. Wij beschouwen deze belofte als een plicht, niet als een marketingboodschap.

Onze redactionele toezegging rust op drie principes. Ten eerste moet elke informatie te herleiden zijn tot een primaire bron, doorgaans een overheidssite, een EU-verordening of een gepubliceerde statistische uitgave. Ten tweede moet elke pagina vermelden wanneer deze voor het laatst is gecontroleerd. Ten derde moet elke vertaling worden geproduceerd of beoordeeld door iemand die zowel het onderwerp als de doeltaal begrijpt – machinevertaling wordt nooit als eindcontent gepubliceerd.

We schrijven geen betaalde plaatsingen, accepteren geen content-sponsoring voor specifieke datapunten en laten advertentierelaties niet de gepubliceerde gegevens beïnvloeden. Een ongemakkelijk feit verzachten we niet; een advies met juridisch risico markeren we expliciet en linken we naar de gezaghebbende bron.

We rely exclusively on primary sources for the substantive parts of each page. For public holidays we use the official calendar published by each country's interior ministry, parliament or statistical office. For working days we calculate from those holiday lists combined with each country's weekend convention; we do not pull from third-party APIs whose update cadence we cannot verify.

For salary data we use Eurostat's structure-of-earnings releases, national statistical offices (Destatis, INE, ISTAT, INSEE, CBS, Statistik Austria), and published collective-agreement schedules where available. Where private salary surveys are referenced we name the survey and the publication year on the page itself.

For immigration content we cite the controlling legislation by article number (German AufenthG, Austrian NAG and AuslBG, Italian D.Lgs. 286/1998, Dutch Vw 2000, French CESEDA, Spanish Ley 14/2013 and others) plus the implementing ministry's English-language guidance. Salary thresholds for visa eligibility are taken from the most recent official decree and dated accordingly.

Whenever a statement on a page could be challenged, we add an inline reference or a footnote linking to the authoritative URL. We avoid quoting other commercial publishers as authority — if they got it from a government source, we go to that source directly.

Every numeric value on the site is verified against at least one official source before publication. For visa salary thresholds, we cross-check the controlling decree, the ministry's English summary and the EU Blue Card minimum where applicable. For tax brackets and social-security ceilings we read the annual finance act or implementing ordinance directly. We accept no "someone told us" data.

Each visa, holiday calendar or salary page is reviewed end to end at least once per year, and again whenever a change in the underlying law or schedule comes to our attention through official-gazette monitoring. The "Last reviewed" date you see on a page is the date of the most recent end-to-end review, not the date of the underlying data.

When we find a mistake we publish a correction directly on the page and update the last-reviewed date. If the correction is material — for example, a wrong salary threshold that could mislead a visa applicant — we add an explicit "Correction" note describing what was wrong and when it was fixed. We do not silently overwrite errors.

Public holidays for the next twelve months are confirmed annually each January, when most member states have published the following year's calendar. We re-verify each country's calendar against the source published by the national parliament, gazette or statistical office. Working-days calculations follow automatically from the verified holiday list.

Visa salary thresholds are reviewed at the beginning of each calendar year and again whenever a country publishes a mid-year change. The German EU Blue Card threshold, the Austrian Red-White-Red Card point thresholds, the Dutch HSM salaries, the French Talent Passport minima, the Spanish HQP cap and the Italian Decreto Flussi quotas all change frequently — we monitor each gazette explicitly.

Statistical content such as average salaries and cost-of-living figures is updated when the responsible statistical office publishes a new release, typically once or twice a year. We do not interpolate between releases; if the most recent figure is from the previous year, the page states the data year explicitly.

Legal and procedural guidance for immigration is reviewed at minimum twice per year and whenever a substantive reform is enacted (such as Germany's 2024 Skilled Immigration Act reform, Austria's 2023 RWR Card reform, or France's periodic CESEDA amendments). Pages affected by a reform carry a visible "Updated" banner for at least 30 days after the change.

We do not publish AI-generated articles. The substantive paragraphs you read on WorkDaten are written by humans — the founder and a small group of subject reviewers. We do use software to detect when a source page has changed, to flag dates that are approaching expiry, and to lay out repetitive tables. We do not use software to draft the explanatory text that surrounds those tables.

Translations into our twenty-five locales are produced through a combination of professional translation and human review. We do not publish raw machine-translation output as final content. Where we have not been able to complete a high-quality translation in a particular locale, the corresponding page is held back from indexing rather than served as low-quality content.

If you suspect a passage was machine-generated, please email us at the address in the Contact section and we will review and rewrite the passage publicly.

WorkDaten is self-funded by its founder and operates with no outside investment. We do not represent any law firm, immigration consultancy, bank or relocation agency. If at some point we add affiliate links — for example to a recognised banking app for incoming expats — those links will carry a visible "Affiliate" tag and will appear only on pages where the recommendation is genuinely useful for the reader, never on the data pages themselves.

We accept no payment for editorial coverage. We do not list visa, salary or holiday information on a paid basis. We do not amplify or hide a country in our coverage based on commercial interest. If you suspect a piece of content is influenced by an undisclosed relationship, the contact information at the bottom of every page reaches the founder directly.

We welcome corrections from readers. If you have spotted a factual error — a wrong holiday date, an outdated salary threshold, a misrepresented visa requirement — please reach out through the Contact page or by emailing the address listed there. Most corrections are processed within a working week; urgent corrections that could mislead an applicant are processed within 24 hours.

Every correction is logged with the page slug, the date the issue was reported, the date it was fixed, and a brief description of what changed. We do not maintain a public correction log yet but we will publish one in 2026 alongside the second-anniversary site review.

WorkDaten was founded by a software engineer and cross-border freelancer based in Austria who has spent the last several years navigating EU immigration, payroll, taxation and invoicing across multiple member states personally. The platform exists because the founder could not find a single trustworthy reference in his own native language for the questions he was asking on behalf of himself, his family and his small business clients.

Substantive immigration content is reviewed by readers who hold the visas described where possible (so a Blue Card page is reviewed by a current Blue Card holder, a DAFT page by a current DAFT entrepreneur, and so on) and by lawyers or migration advisers we consult on a topic-by-topic basis. Reviewers' identities are not published on individual pages to protect their privacy, but a summary list of credentials is available on request through the Contact page.

Statistical content is reviewed against the primary release by a team member with formal training in economics or statistics. Tax and payroll content is reviewed against the controlling legislation by a contributor who has filed in the relevant jurisdiction.

WorkDaten keeps privacy, cookie and terms information close to the rest of the platform so users can review important policies without losing the same language and navigation context.

Before relying on a calculator for a recurring workflow, a team can review the legal pages to understand how WorkDaten frames privacy, cookies and platform responsibilities.