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Inflow of Eastern European workers petering out
In June 2009, there were 104 thousand workers from Eastern European EU member states in the Netherlands, about as many as in June 2008. The sharp increase in recent years has almost completely come...
Number of jobs plummets
The number of jobs of employees in the Netherlands was 72 thousand (0.9 percent) lower in the second quarter of 2009 than one year previously. A four-year period of continuous job growth has now come...
Trade union membership rates continue to decline
In 2008, one in five employees working in paid employment for at least twelve hours a week were members of a trade union. In recent years, trade union membership rates have fallen considerably.
Number of jobs plummets
The number of jobs of employees in the Netherlands was 93 thousand lower in the second quarter of 2009 than one year previously; this is a drop of 1.2 percent.
Fewer employees take parental leave
Fewer employees took parental leave in 2008 than in previous years, but the average leave period increased.
Part-timers less satisfied with working hours than full-timers
In 2008, the large majority of workers in the Netherlands, nearly 86 percent, were satisfied with their working hours.
Number of unemployment benefits growing faster
Some 11 thousand more unemployment benefits (WW) were paid out in April 2009 than the month before. This brings the seasonally adjusted figure to 203 thousand.
People more concerned about losing their jobs
At the end of 2008 show that by the end of last year, one million employees (18 percent) reported they were concerned about losing their jobs.
Sickness absence rate stable in recent years
Last year's sickness absence rate for Dutch employees averaged 4.3 percent. The lowest rate was recorded among people employed in agriculture. Since 2004, the sickness absence rate in the Netherlands...
Four percent of employees per day off sick
Sickness absence among Dutch employees was an average 3.9 percent in the third quarter of 2008.
Labour shortage past its peak
Tension on the Dutch labour market remained high in 2008. The period of fast increasing labour shortage seems to be over, though, and the first signs of an increasing labour supply can be seen...
Number of video shops reduced by half over the past decade
The number of video shops was reduced by half over the period 1998–2008.