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The number of working hours per year agreed with the employee minus the hours not worked due to leave, holidays, reduced working hours, and age-related leave for older employees.

A person who works for his/her own account and risk - in an own company or practice (self-employed entrepreneur), or - as an owner-manager, and - who has employees.

Index showing the development of the average wage earned, corrected for changes in the composition of the work force in the branch of industry, age, sex and kind of work.

Premiums employers and employees have to pay on the basis of several social insurance laws such as the AOW (pensions) , ZFW (health insurance) and WW (unemployment)

One of the Academy’s findings is that government organisations are mainly focused on businesses and the general public when making the data they collect available. The academic world is not yet on...

The highest court in the Netherlands deals with cassation of decisions in virtually all cases for which there is no other legal remedy open. There is one supreme court.

The aim of the law is to create employment for people who can work but cannot succeed in finding regular employment due to physical or mental disabilities.

Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an institution or private household in the Netherlands.

Someone who was under 18 at the time he/she committed a crime. Simpler kinds of criminal behaviour are often dealt with in HALT programs. Nobody under the age of 12 can be prosecuted.

Shifting annual average of the reporting frequency of the sickness absence rate in government as an indicator for long-term developments.

Decision by a judge to annul a registered partnership at the request of one of the partners. The annulment becomes definite when it is entered in the municipal population register.

The part of social insurance premiums paid by employers.

Purchase value of commodities, services etc. not elsewhere classified.

An umbrella concept for the filled and unfilled demand for work by employees and self-employed people. Several related concepts are jobs, unfilled vacancies, employed people, employed labour force...

Sick leave refers to sick leave including leave of more than one year and excluding pregnancy and maternity leave for public sector employees: central government, provinces, municipalities, water...

Law rescinded on 1 July 1998 and replaced by WAZ and Wajong. It was a compulsory insurance for the entire population against the financial consequences of long-term disablement.

A job for which there is a permanent contract and for which a fixed number of hours was agreed that is less than the number of hours in a full day’s or working week.

Someone who agrees to work for another person or company from home – outside the direct control of the other party - for a preset amount, not using more than two helpers from outside the family.

The classification of educational programs by level and field used by Statistics Netherlands developed for use in statistics and research and for administrative purposes in the Netherlands.

Shifting year average of the percentage of sick leave in the public sector. It refers to sick leave including leave of more than one year and excluding pregnancy and maternity leave. It indicates...

Premiums payable by the employer on the basis of several social insurance laws such as the AOW (pensions), ZFW (health insurance) and WW (unemployment) as well as premium transfers.

Regulation allowing employers to be exempt from having to pay the legal minimum wage or the normal collective labour agreement wage to employees who perform clearly below the required level due to...

The classification of educational programs by level and field used by Statistics Netherlands since 1998 developed for use in statistics and research and for administrative purposes in the Netherlands.

The additions to provisions minus released provisions such as run-up and reconstitution funds, maintenance reserves, guarantee provisions, etc.

Decision by the public prosecutor not to take action because the prosecution is unlikely to lead to a conviction (for instance due to lack of evidence or because the fact or the suspect is not...