CNV: many employers lay off temporary employees – Financieele Dagblad (Registration)

CNV chairman Maurice Limmen

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Nearly two hundred bodies lay off temporary employees prior to the Work and Protection (WWZ ) which is from July. That says union CNV, which previously has set up a special hotline.

“This is not an isolated incident,” concludes CNV- Chairman Maurice Limmen. “Employers dismiss massive temporary and flexible workers. This is completely contrary to the intent of the WWZ and the spirit of the social agreement. “

On July 1, the new law. The idea behind the law is that flexible workers have more rights. So they do not have to wait three years contract of permanent employment, but employers must give their all after two years of steady work. The company has no appetite for it, then make the flexi-worker entitlement to severance pay of a minimum of two third monthly wage.

Time for v akantie

It is clear that companies currently under CNV anticipating the introduction of the law and still quickly want to get rid of their temporary staff. From reports that the past three weeks came in CNV, it appears that many fixed-term contracts, on call contracts and zero-hours contracts are not renewed.

Many detectors indicate they are told about six months before they come back. “Make it a long vacation, you will have more time for the garden” to hear, so get flexworkers. ING recently been aroused the anger of the unions, because the company before July 1 release 275 temporary staff.

Many public companies

The CNV hotline have been reports of all ages and received from all sectors of the labor market, says the union. It is striking that public enterprises and semi-governmental therein are strongly represented.

According Limmen would be good if the government itself as an employer once look in the mirror. “It is striking how many messages we get about layoffs flex workers in government institutions. The government should act as a good employer. “

Reports of agencies

are also on most major agencies reports of layoffs flexible workers arrived. Agencies extensive advertising on the advice they have to offer around the introduction of the WWZ. At the same time, many employers terminate the contract with agency staff and find little flow to permanent contracts instead

Limmen:. “We have previously seen ING, but the hotline indicates that the dismissal of temporary employees for the introduction of the WWZ in almost every sector happens. The WWZ and the transition allowance are meant to train employees better and to strengthen the Dutch labor market. You go around the law, then you under my ambition. “

VNO-NCW has signed agreements in the social agreement . I call on President Hans de Boer therefore itself cliff and ready to make a ruling. A deal is a deal. “