Largest home care organization wants to lay off 650 employees – NU.nl

In addition, losses this year approximately 1,500 employees with a temporary contract their jobs. Moreover, the salaries of some 4,300 employees ‘slashed’. That makes the company announced on Wednesday.

Director Zion Jongstra writes the ” unprecedented severe measures’ ‘to the cuts that Secretary 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. Employees who are laid off, working in municipalities completely stop financing the home help. What they are is still unknown

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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.

Disappear

Jongstra provides that in Dutch home organizations totaling more ” 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. ”

State Secretary

Van Rijn called the layoffs “incredible acid for the employees.” The Minister indicated that the government is working with municipalities to preserve as many jobs for developing domestic help and ” a new market for personal services. ” ” For example, the $ 190 million that is available for the Household Assistance Grant scheme. It is also involved TSN, ” said the minister.

That TSN indicating that layoffs threaten municipalities where no domestic help is offered, according to Van Rijn ” really is not the story. ” Because: ” Every municipality must provide a facility for people who need it. So I hear from TSN on which municipalities they have it. ”

Disastrous government policy

According to trade union FNV shows the layoff at TSN Care that government policy “disastrous for the care and employment in that sector. ”

The union demands that the State intervenes and that he and Minister Skipper “stop the good news story about their care policy.” FNV emphasizes that Van Rijn last week announced that the shift in care had expired controlled.

FNV director Gijs van Dijk says that the government can no longer look away. The union promises the next time to continue actions in the care

By:. ANP / NU.nl