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What you need, and whether support is the right instrument for it.
Kontich and Lier · Owner-managed businesses
We deliver results,
We deliver results,
not people.
Belgian law prohibits making personnel available to a third party who would exercise employer authority over them. Get that wrong and the user is jointly liable for contributions and pay. So we work on defined deliverables, and if you need staff we send you to a licensed agency.
- 2021trading since
- Kontichbased in
- Scopein writing
- Nostaff lending
What we do
Four services, one boundary
Defined deliverables under our own direction. We supply results, never personnel.
Back-office and administration
Administrative and back-office work an owner-managed business has outgrown.
See the programInterim management
Stepping in on a defined mandate when a role is vacant or a project needs running.
See the programProcess review
Reviewing how work actually happens and proposing something that holds.
See the programHead office functions
Carrying central and head office support functions for small groups of companies.
See the program
How it works
How we work
Scope the engagement in writing around deliverables rather than instructed hours, work under our own direction, refuse anything that would amount to supplying personnel, and refer reserved matters to the professions entitled to handle them.
Written scope
Deliverables, period, fees, exclusions and reporting.
Delivered under our direction
Not as a person placed under yours.
Reported and handed over
Documented so it survives the engagement ending.
Working together
Ways to work with us
Quoted per engagement or per mandate after a first meeting. We do not charge for referring you elsewhere.
A defined engagement
A body of work, with deliverables and dates.
- Scope written before starting
- Deliverables, not instructed hours
- Fees fixed in advance
- Exclusions stated
- Reported in writing
Interim mandate
A role or project run on a written mandate.
- Objective, period and authority agreed
- Independent, not in your hierarchy
- Regular reporting
- Handover documented
- Reviewed as it runs
What we will not do
Said plainly, because the liability is yours too.
- No personnel made available
- No temporary agency work
- No placement for a fee
- No accounting or tax: ITAA
- No legal advice: the Bar
Every engagement is quoted after a free consultation. No subscription.
How we work
Support that delivers work, not workers
Peter Verpoort Consulting is a company incorporated under Belgian law, registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under enterprise number 0768.598.997, based at Prins Boudewijnlaan in 2550 Kontich with an establishment at Lier, and trading since May 2021. The work is operational business support for owner-managed companies and small groups: back-office and administration, interim management, process review, and head office functions.
One rule defines how every engagement is built. Article 31 of the Law of 24 July 1987 prohibits, in principle, making your personnel available to a third party who exercises employer authority over them, and temporary agency work is lawful only through an agency holding regional recognition. We hold none and we do not supply or lend people. Engagements are therefore built around defined deliverables performed under our own direction. This is not a technicality: where an arrangement amounts in substance to the prohibited supply of personnel, the user can be jointly liable for social security contributions and remuneration and an employment contract can be deemed to exist. A business that genuinely needs workers under its own authority needs a licensed agency, and we say so rather than taking the engagement.
Frequently asked
The questions we get most
Can you put someone in our office two days a week?
Not as a person working under your instruction, no. That would be making personnel available to a third party exercising employer authority, which Article 31 of the Law of 24 July 1987 prohibits outside licensed temporary agency work. What we can do is take a defined body of work and deliver it under our own direction. If what you need is genuinely a pair of hands under your supervision, you need a licensed agency and we will point you to one.
Why does that matter to us rather than just to you?
Because the liability runs both ways. Where personnel are unlawfully made available, the user of those workers can be held jointly and severally liable for social security contributions and remuneration, and an employment contract can be deemed to exist between the user and the worker. A supplier who is relaxed about the distinction is exposing you, not only itself.
Is interim management not the same thing?
Not when it is structured properly. An interim mandate is a defined assignment performed by an independent undertaking: an objective, a period, an agreed authority and a reporting line, with us retaining the organisation of our own work. What makes it different from employment or staff supply is precisely that structure, which is why we write it down rather than agreeing it in a conversation.
Can you handle our bookkeeping while you are at it?
No. Keeping books, preparing annual accounts and giving tax advice are reserved in Belgium to professionals registered with the ITAA. We work from your figures and alongside your accountant, but we do not produce them and we do not advise on tax. The same applies to legal questions, which belong to a lawyer, and to anything touching investments, which needs FSMA authorisation.
Can you find and hire someone for us?
We can help you define the role, the process and how to assess candidates. We cannot place a candidate in employment for a fee, which requires recognition from the Region that we do not hold. The actual recruitment goes to a licensed agency, and that is a sentence worth hearing from a supplier rather than discovering afterwards.
Will you guarantee the improvement?
No, and a guarantee there should make you suspicious. We answer for the work, the reasoning and the deliverables. Whether the business improves depends on decisions you take and on execution by your people, neither of which is ours to control. We write our assumptions down so you can argue with them.
Got something that needs taking off your desk?
A free first meeting to scope it, with no obligation.