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Occupational health care service
Safety, health and welfare service for employees, as laid down in the Dutch Arbowet.
Wage sum
The total of wages and social premiums paid by employers. Use for: Compensation of employees.
Worker on call
Employee who is available for work on call and who does not have a fixed number of working hours.
Monthly wages
The gross wage paid each month before deducting the pension and early retirement premiums paid by the employee.
Full-time job
An employee's job when he or she has a contract and tasks for a full working day and full working week.
Gross wage applicable for social insurance schemes
The wage on which employees have to pay social security contributions such as unemployment (WW) and health insurance (ZW).
Working in shifts
Working in a system where the working hours of two or more groups of employees (of about equal numbers) follow or slightly overlap.
Law on the extended obligation to pay sickness benefits (WULBZ)
This law prescribes that employers must pay the employees wage during sickness for a maximum of one year.
Save-as-you-earn deduction
The part of the gross wages deposited in the employee’s account for the save-as-you-earn scheme.
Contractual wage costs
The collective labour agreement wage rate including special payments plus the legally and contractually required employee contributions for pensions, early retirement, unemployment, labour disability...
Trade union
Organisation of employees with the aim to represent the collective and/or individual interests of its members in the face of employers and organisations influencing labour conditions.
Minimum wage earner
Employee earning the minimum wage applicable to his/her age or less. For part-time workers the minimum wage is proportional to the number of weekly hours worked.
Unemployment Benefits Act (WW)
The law insures employees against the financial consequences of unemployment. The duration of the WW benefits depends on the employment record.
Inflation
Since February 1994 the year-on-year percentage changes in the consumer price index (CPI) for all households. Before that the official figure was based on the CPI for employees, low.
Labour contract for a fixed period of time
An employment contract which specifies a fixed period of time, either as agreed between employer and employee, or determined by law or by custom.
Operating surplus
Value added after subtraction of employees' remuneration and net payments of /revenues from product-related taks and subsidies, e.g. property taks and motor vehicle taks.
Occupational Disability Insurance Act (WAO)
The law entitles employees who become disabled to a benefit replacing their wages when they become long-term disabled, e.g. for more than one year.
Contractual social premiums
The employer’s contribution paid in the framework of insuring pensions for employees and the premiums for additional disablement and unemployment insurance, sick leave benefits and social funds...
Sickness Benefits Act (ZW)
The law insures employees against the expense from sickness and labour disability. The law applies when there is no legal obligation to continue paying wages.
Pension insurance
An insurance an employer has with a pension fund or insurance company in order to provide the employees with a pension to supplement the benefits under the General Old Age Pension Act (AOW).
Labour costs (in the production statistics)
In the production statistics by Statistics Netherlands the labour costs are the gross wages and salaries of employees and the social contributions payable by the employers.
Wage cost subsidies
Subsidy on the total wage sum or the number of employees. Or subsidies for employing certain categories of people, such as physically disabled or long-term unemployed people. Also subsidies on the...
Collective agreements
This includes: - Collectively labour agreements (CAO in Dutch) Wages and other working conditions laid down by the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment; - Wages and other working conditions laid...
Reporting frequency of the sickness absence rate in government
The ratio between the number of cases of sick leave started in the observation period and the number of employees. The duration of the observation period influences the reporting frequency which...
Income from labour
or persons and households this is wage and salary including employee-paid and employer-paid premiums for social insurance, bonuses, save-as-you-earn deductions and remuneration for labour carried out...