FNV: many flexible workers can barely make ends meet – Financieele Dagblad (Registration)

Employees with temporary contracts have significantly more trouble making ends meet than staff with tenure. That emerges from a study of the nation’s largest FNV under 4,200 employees, including 3,200 temporary employees and a thousand permanent workers. The study was presented Thursday to Minister Lodewijk Asscher of Social Affairs.

More than 40% of staffing employees say they do not earn enough good around to come, says the FNV. The same is true for only 20% of employees with a permanent job. Almost a third of all call workers and 40% of all agency workers also have trouble finding an affordable rental property, opposite a tenth of the people with steady work.

Minimum wage

In addition, according to the FNV added that a large number of temporary employees not paid properly. So says 15% of surveyed employees with a temporary job that they earn less than the legal minimum wage for a 36-hour week, or € 9.58 per hour. A quarter do not get paid all hours worked. At the same time almost half of the flexible workers (43%) they are expected to be available outside the hours paid for work; 13% must be even always ready. Many of them have often, if not always, work on weekends, evening or night.

FNV director Mariette Patijnlaan said to be familiar with “the stories of the people with precarious employment. “Remember the distribution employees who require out every night to his bed at 4am, catering assistant who does not know whether it next month still has work and pharmacy assistant who must be available for forty hours a week and ended only twenty hours scheduled. ‘

Government as employer

Also, health care workers and teachers according Patijnlaan more and more flexible contracts ‘forced’, thereby improving the quality of public services would crumble. The FNV observes an increase in people – they’re in government employers – on a payroll, staffing or Zero-hour contract are to work while they do structural work and not just in “sick and peak” are deployed. “It is the first time that we now see in figures unsure what work means to people’s lives. If you work, you should simply be able to live there, “says Patijn.

90 % want permanent contract

The FNV director has Thursday during proclaimed by the FNV ‘Week the precarious work ‘at Deputy Prime Asscher (PvdA) insisted that workers regain more collateral. “The government should really understand the consequences of job insecurity.” According to the FNV pleases many as 90% of all surveyed flex workers on a permanent contract. The Confederation wants on May 1, the international ‘Labor Day’ demonstration for ‘real jobs’ and keep more purchasing power in Amsterdam.