35 Dutch companies, the government asked for financial aid to finance working hours. They want their staff temporarily sent home because of the impact of the credit crisis.
The Lower House is divided on the use of the unemployment fund for shorter working hours for companies. The leftist parties to the PVV sympathetic to the request made by trade unions and employers, but the government parties CDA and Christian Union with the opposition parties VVD and D66 hooks and eyes.
That showed last night in the Lower House during a debate on the impact of financial crisis. The government will later this week or early next week a decision on whether the regime also wants to use to reduce the impact of the credit crisis of individual companies to soften.
Employers and workers are waiting anxiously at the green light from politics for temporary working. That is according to the social partners are desperately needed now above the dark clouds Dutch economy pack.
Several companies, including Nedcar, DSM, Corus and Philips, already let their staff work shorter hours. Philips sends the staff of the razors factory in Drachten even a week with paid leave, provided they accept that, then other temporary work.
People are over a thousand employees atv mandatory five days to take, because the production by the credit crisis has collapsed. The personnel assigned to tweak the Mitsubishi Outlander, waiting for the end of this year, also ten 'flex days. " Once the production attracts, the workers three-quarters of the hours worked not catch up.
Many such companies may not pay out of pocket. 35 have been suffered by Minister Piet Hein Donner of Social Affairs and Employment called on the existing arrangements for working hours.
That is really meant for companies where it is clear that a sales decline, for example by burning of a factory, is of short duration. In such a case, temporary workers sent home with pay. The employer will receive compensation from the unemployment fund. The fund is now about nine billion euros WW premium paid by workers and employers.
Donner now review each company or the scheme. The minister wants to avoid too great a reliance on the WW-cash, especially since the Cabinet has decided the WW premium for employees with effect from next year to abolish.
Both Donner as Minister of Finance Wouter Bos said yesterday in the House that the scheme is not allowed to print that ailing companies and failing managers with WW-up money into account.
The Lower House is divided on the use of the unemployment fund for shorter working hours for companies. The leftist parties to the PVV sympathetic to the request made by trade unions and employers, but the government parties CDA and Christian Union with the opposition parties VVD and D66 hooks and eyes.
That showed last night in the Lower House during a debate on the impact of financial crisis. The government will later this week or early next week a decision on whether the regime also wants to use to reduce the impact of the credit crisis of individual companies to soften.
Employers and workers are waiting anxiously at the green light from politics for temporary working. That is according to the social partners are desperately needed now above the dark clouds Dutch economy pack.
Several companies, including Nedcar, DSM, Corus and Philips, already let their staff work shorter hours. Philips sends the staff of the razors factory in Drachten even a week with paid leave, provided they accept that, then other temporary work.
People are over a thousand employees atv mandatory five days to take, because the production by the credit crisis has collapsed. The personnel assigned to tweak the Mitsubishi Outlander, waiting for the end of this year, also ten 'flex days. " Once the production attracts, the workers three-quarters of the hours worked not catch up.
Many such companies may not pay out of pocket. 35 have been suffered by Minister Piet Hein Donner of Social Affairs and Employment called on the existing arrangements for working hours.
That is really meant for companies where it is clear that a sales decline, for example by burning of a factory, is of short duration. In such a case, temporary workers sent home with pay. The employer will receive compensation from the unemployment fund. The fund is now about nine billion euros WW premium paid by workers and employers.
Donner now review each company or the scheme. The minister wants to avoid too great a reliance on the WW-cash, especially since the Cabinet has decided the WW premium for employees with effect from next year to abolish.
Both Donner as Minister of Finance Wouter Bos said yesterday in the House that the scheme is not allowed to print that ailing companies and failing managers with WW-up money into account.
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