“Older expensive for employers’ – NU.nl

For example, to make them senior staff expensive for employers, writes the CPB Thursday in a report (pdf).

Many older unemployed have expected little to the economic recovery underway. To them get back to work, necessary reforms on the labor market.

The relatively high wages, age-related severance and pension costs make 50-plus expensive. The elderly often have all kinds of “employment promotion measures” in collective agreements, which give them additional rights or fewer duties.

Employers will reluctant to take the employment of older unemployed. Policy is already in The Hague waged here to change that, but more fundamental reforms are needed, according to the CPB.

The researchers are thinking of ” unemployment benefit decreases with unemployment duration, dismissal less depends on the length of employment and less age-dependent arrangements in collective agreements ”.

The Great Recession

The high long-term unemployment among older people is a structural problem, the report said. Before the start of the crisis had already been an increase. In the aftermath of the Great Recession suffers Netherlands with 270,000 people who have been unemployed for more than a year.

This is more than 3 per cent of the workforce. Among them are a striking number of older people. Who lose their jobs do not often, but when they become unemployed, the chances of long-term unemployment almost twice as big as average.

Unions

Trade union FNV calls on the government to work Making the fight against long-term unemployment.

“Yesterday there was much rejoicing hard by this government to the growth of the Dutch economy. Good news of course, but there are the more than 600,000 unemployed in our country is absolutely nothing to. They still feel daily the consequences of the crisis and many of them are in a desperate situation, “said FNV chairman Ton Heerts.

According to trade union CNV comes CPB with” false solutions “. “This is hunting people the true meaning of fear, and that is no need,” said President Maurice Limmen.

According to CNV unemployment should be a good income provision, which provides security and “where not slowly thumbscrews tightened “.

From table

The government sweeps the proposal by the Netherlands Bureau for retrenchment unemployment WW resolutely table. ” We will not do, ” late minister Lodewijk Asscher (Social Affairs and Employment) in a response.

The problem is not in his view that older unemployed people do not want to work, but that the costs labor are too high. The government wants that cost through a tax reform just bring down, making it cheaper for employers to hire people

By: ANP / NU.nl