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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Big layoffs at TSN Care – Telegraaf.nl

THE HAGUE –

TSN Care, the largest home care organization in the Netherlands, dismisses the coming months, 650 of the 11,000 permanent employees. In addition, losses this year about 1,500 employees with a temporary contract their jobs. Moreover, the salaries are of some 4300 employees ,, considerably reduced. ‘ That made the company announced Wednesday

Unprecedented heavy

Director Zion Jongstra writes the” unprecedented severe measures “to the cuts that Minister Martin van Rijn (Health) municipalities have imposed. “Many municipalities that make a big scoop of power and reduce the fee for home care sometimes drastically,” says Jongstra. The workers made redundant work in municipalities that completely stop the funding of home help. What they are is still unknown.

For people who now have home help, this according Jongstra means they can lose that help or later can not pay more. And then they can no longer live independently, so they have to go to a nursing home

“These problems can be traced directly back to the policy of the State:. Visionless pruning. I dare say that there are more hours of meetings on domestic help than that actually this help is deployed, “said Jongstra.

Pay Cut

The pay cuts relate to employees working in places where it is much lower than the rate offered by local labor. ,, TSN should focus here now for over 5 euros per hour worked on. We regret these employees to do such important work less rewarding to go, but have no other choice. We can no longer bear these losses, ” says the director.

Vulnerable

Jongstra provides that in Dutch home organizations in total yet ,, tens of thousands ” of jobs disappear in the near future. In addition, the home care for 220,000 acutely vulnerable people at risk. TSN Thuishulp scrapped earlier this year several hundred new jobs through smaller reorganizations, also as a result of the cuts.

The

TSN director wants Van Rijn intervenes directly. As the Secretary municipalities would impose minimum rates and delete them prohibit home help. ,, And he can municipalities that do have settled well to set an example ”