This handbook is part of your Dutch employment agreement. Policy chapters change when needed; terms-of-employment chapters change only after the People Context Rep has weighed in and you’ve agreed. UK colleagues follow their Oyster contract. Changes are announced in #luscii-we-at-luscii-changelog.

Nucleus: Live · Owner: @Anne Pasdeloup · Reviewed: 25 Sept 2026

This handbook is part of your employment agreement. We'd rather write down how things really work than keep the real rules somewhere you can't see them. The flip side: changing a page can change what you're owed. So here is exactly how changes happen.

✍️ Who keeps this handbook

The People Handbook Author keeps this handbook accurate, brings in changes in the law, and is the person to ask when a chapter doesn't match what you're experiencing. Anyone can propose a change. Most of the good ones start with someone noticing that a page no longer describes reality.

⚖️ Two kinds of chapters

Most chapters describe how we work. That's policy: we update it when we learn something better.

Some chapters describe what you get, or what you owe, in return for your salary. Those are terms of employment. The test is simple: can you derive an entitlement or an obligation from it?

Terms of employment don't change on our own say-so. A proposal goes to the People Context Rep first, who weighs it on everyone's behalf. And anything that changes what you personally are owed is agreed with you before it applies.

Very rarely, something has to change that we can't leave as it is: the law moves, or the company's situation does. If that happens we tell you what changed, why we couldn't avoid it, and what it means for you.

📋 Which chapters are terms of employment

Compensation procedures · Contract Renewals · Benefits · Expenses and reimbursements · Time off · Becoming a parent at Luscii · Unable to work · Working remotely · Assemblii Guide · Moonlighting · Leaving Luscii

Everything else is policy. Two pages deserve a word:

• Health & safety is policy, but we only ever update it to make it stronger. Keeping you safe at work is a duty, not a choice.
• Moonlighting is a term of employment for a reason that is easy to miss: it sets out what side work is fine, and your employment agreement points at it. Narrowing that page would take something away from you, so we don't narrow it on our own.

🤝 Agreements that grow into the handbook

Relational agreements lets you ask for an agreement to be written into this handbook when it should hold for everyone. That's policy. If your proposal carries an obligation for people, it takes the same route as any change to terms of employment: discussed and agreed, not simply published.

🇬🇧 If you work in the UK

You're employed through Oyster, so your terms live in your Oyster contract and in UK law, not in this handbook. The lists above are about Dutch employment agreements. Everything else here, how we work, how we decide and what we expect of each other, applies to you just like everyone else.

📣 When something changes