Safety net for flexible workers should discuss – Financieel Dagblad (Registration)

Safety net for flexible workers should discuss – Financieel Dagblad (Registration)

Employers actually come up with a proposal that you would expect. Employees from the corner There should be a social safety net are all freelancers and other flexible workers to prevent them from falling by the wayside, allows employers dome AWVN in the FD. The current system only guarantees security for permanent workers, while the Netherlands will count an estimated two million self-employed.

The proposal is not free of course of self-interest: the imagined new system means that the current facilities are spread over more people thinner. Premiums down and therefore permanent jobs are much cheaper.

Market failure

Dat Nevertheless, there is much to be said for a system review. The approach is progressive, that social security should be around a form of contract, but not organized around work. This principle can also count on support in trade union circles.

And the dome rightly raised the issue that many self-employed not unwillingness uninsured, but because the private market poorly or does not work, is opaque, and therefore too expensive. Government intervention at this point may be desirable, especially in the area of ​​universal risks such as illness and disability.

Political fire

The idea is based on economic grounds not so bad: the productivity of flexible workers is generally higher, and with an independent a safety net is more likely to call for a mortgage. The most sensitive issue is how the acquired rights of permanent employees should be. Creamed This is a potential political hotbed, and it is not surprising that here AWVN little meaning to dare to give.

The important thing is of recognizing the fact that flexible work is part of the new reality, not a disease that must be fought. Creates awareness that you can not squeeze, as envisaged in the Social Accord in 2011, self-employed in permanent jobs, the new labor market does not adapt itself to the social system, which will be the other way around.

Het the question is when. AWVN has the luxury of what to look further ahead but the lobby club VNO-NCW is bound to Hague relations and the implementation of the agreement. The ink is barely dry them, and already seems outdated.

This is the daily commentary the editorial board of the FD.