Work and jobs
Employment, unemployment, wages and collective agreements, strikes over pay, self-employed, UWV, employers and unions.
Stories on work and jobs
- UWV scraps €55m IT system after five years; MPs question minister
- Dutch unemployment holds at 4.0% in September, with 408,000 people out of work
- 131,000 fewer zzp'ers work in the Netherlands than at the 2024 peak
- No extra dentist training places, despite growing shortage
- Regional transport strike hits Brabant, Utrecht and Rotterdam hardest; NS runs
- Unions press Shell for clarity on future of Moerdijk chemical complex
- Cabinet to open a Werkcentrum job centre in every labour market region
- Relay strike hits regional buses: none will run on Wednesday
- Regional bus and train staff to strike one day a week until Christmas
- Batavus, KOGA and Babboe sold to Dutech after Accell bankruptcy
- Belgian rail strike disrupts trains to and from the Netherlands on Monday
- No minimum amount yet for mandatory internship allowance
- Equal pay with the hiring company to count in licences for staff lenders
- Booking.com and its works council in court over mandatory office days
- Cabinet, unions and employers hold first talks as industrial action pauses