Labour and social security
Filter by year:- Modest but sustained job growth
- Economic recession affects bonuses in 2009
- Employment participation rate also higher among mothers with non-western background
- Unemployment virtually unchanged
- Parental leave in private sector usually unpaid
- Fewer employees with a permanent contract
- More self-employed people without personnel in the third quarter of 2010
- More young people prefer education to a job
- Number of income support benefits hardly up
- Background characteristics account for lower wages second generation
- Number of hours worked in temp jobs increases further
- Unemployment down as fewer people lose their jobs
- Lorry driver and shop assistant most popular jobs
- No further increase retirement age employees
- Unemployment reduced further, though marginally
- Nearly 1.7 million disabled people in the Dutch labour force
- Job vacancies up
- One in twelve welfare claimants found a job in 2009
- Trade union membership slightly down in 2010
- Relatively more women unemployed in the course of time
- Unemployment marginally down
- Childcare more important for working parents
- Social security debt amounts to 1.3 billion euro
- CAO wage increase stable in third quarter
- Wage gap between genders narrowing
- Fewer jobs lost than anticipated
- Unemployment down for sixth month in a row
- Statistics Netherlands and the 100 million pay slips
- Most recipients of part-time WW benefits in metal industry
- 300 thousand social assistance benefits
- Substantial increase in number of temp jobs
- Unemployment further down
- One in ten 15 to 64-year-olds receive social security benefits
- Number of job vacancies stable
- Few Eastern Europeans living in the Netherlands receive social security and unemployment benefits
- Unemployment marginally lower
- Increase in east European workers picks up again
- Most employees do not take leave to care for a sick relative
- New method for Statistics Netherlands' unemployment figures
- More and more families with two working parents
- Smallest wage rise since 2005
- More higher educated women, higher labour participation rate
- Sustained loss of jobs
- Secondary school pupils earn extra income of 1,100 euro annually
- Fewer people changed jobs in 2009
- Unemployment further down
- Fewer temp agency workers in manufacturing in particular in 2009
- Number of income support benefits up again
- Smaller reduction in number of temp jobs
- Fewer unemployed
- Fewer and fewer survivor benefits
- Job vacancies continue to fall
- More older people working
- New method for job vacancies
- More and more employees want to work to the age of 65
- Slower rise in unemployment
- Declining trend WAO benefits levels off
- Few strike days in 2009
- Fewer school-leavers without starter qualification
- Changes on the job market manifest in more modest increase CAO wages
- Job market also tougher for women
- Sickness absence rate up slightly in 2009
- Fewer jobs lost
- Sustained unemployment growth
- From self-employes to employed
- Male part-timers more often than women decide to increase their working hours
- Mothers working long hours are more often self-employed
- Unemployment up across all provinces in 2009
- Increase social security benefits 22 thousand in 2009
- Decline in number of temp hours levels off
- Self-employed hardly worked less in 2009
- Fewer extra hours worked in second half of 2009
- Unemployment further up
- Number of unfilled job vacancies marginally down
- Unemployment rate 11 percent among people with non-western background
- Four in ten surviving relatives receive Anw benefit
- More self-employed without personnel chuck it in
- Marginal growth East European workers
- Strong rise in unemployment for over-45s
- Collectively agreed wages up 2.9 percent in 2009