This writes the Central Planning bureau (CPB) Thursday in a report on the increase of flexible workers in the Netherlands.
especially among the lower levels of education increases the share of flexible employment contracts is relatively hard. Of low-skilled 40-year-olds has about 17 percent a flexible contract. Among highly-educated people, the percentage is 8 percent lower.
in Addition, the risk of unemployment and poverty for workers with a flexible contract is three times as high as among employees with a permanent employment contract. Also find flexible employees, their job more stressful. Moreover, benefit less from protection against dismissal and social security, and they build up less pension.
According to the CPB, there are solutions that the disadvantages of flexible work limit, but it is a challenge to the employment not to damage them.
The CPB suggests, for example, the introduction of more rules for flexible working or reducing the size of the differences in costs and risks for different workplaces. The institute calls the choice “not easy”.
Myth
“The CPB helps this morning effective the myth to make soap that flexibility in the Dutch labour market, a kind of economic law of nature which do not fall to escape”, responds vakbondsvoorzitter Maurice Limmen of the CNV.
He also points out that the Netherlands is really a exception when it comes to the combination of a high number of flexbanen and a large amount of self-employed persons.
Also the coordinator conditions of employment of FNV, Mariëtte Patijn, is that the CPB the increase of precarious work in the Netherlands also as a problem. “We have the trend of times,” she states.
At this time, work according to the planning office at the most six out of ten people through a fixed contract. Ten years ago there were still more than seven out of ten.
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