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Calculate Your Rent: Max 25% Allowed

Paying more than 25% of your minimum wage for employer housing? Or is the housing bad? You are paying too much and entitled to your money back.

Calculate if your rent is correct

What you need to know:

  • ✅ Maximum 25% of gross minimum wage can be deducted
  • ✅ Linking work and housing is ILLEGAL since 2025
  • ✅ Lose job ≠ automatically homeless
  • ✅ Housing must meet SNF standards (quality)
  • ✅ Paid too much? You can get it back

When are you being exploited with housing?

  • More than 25% of your gross minimum wage is deducted
  • You pay €400+ per month for one room
  • Housing is bad: too small, dirty, dangerous, no privacy
  • You must leave housing immediately when losing your job
  • Your employer threatens "no work = no house"
  • You live with 6+ people in a small house
  • There is no rental contract or unclear contract

What are your rights?

  • Max 25% deduction - anything above is illegal
  • Housing must meet SNF standards (space, privacy, sanitation)
  • Work and rent CANNOT be linked (2025 law)
  • When fired: notice period for housing (not immediate eviction)
  • Rental contract must be separate from employment contract
  • Right to refund if overpaid

What can a lawyer do?

  • Calculate how much you overpaid
  • Recover overpaid rent (can be thousands of euros)
  • Demand better housing or lower rent
  • Protect against immediate homelessness when fired
  • Hold employer liable for poor housing

Common situations (ILLEGAL)

  • You earn €2,400/month, pay €800 rent → 33% = ILLEGAL (max is 25%)
  • Small room for €450/month with 4 others → Often overpriced + overcrowded
  • "If you stop working, you must leave today" → ILLEGAL since 2025
  • Employer deducts €600 for "housing" without contract → ILLEGAL
  • Mold, broken heating, but paying full rent → SNF standards violated

I paid €650 per month for a small room I had to share. That was 35% of my wage. The lawyer recovered €3,800 for 10 months of overpaid rent. Now I live better and cheaper.

— Maria, Romanian warehouse worker
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