Employees in sectors of the Dutch economy where flexwages are common, opt for more security. This applies in particular to the bank and insurance sector (4 out of 5 get a flexwage), ICT/telecom and the chemical industry (three quarters has flexwage). But in sectors where flexwages occur less, employees would prefer to see more of it. This appears to be the case in particular in textile, clothing and paper, agriculture and fisheries, as well as in retail, where less then 50 percent get flexwages.
This results from a study commissioned by FNV Bondgenoten – the largest trade union in the Netherlands – using the Dutch WageIndicator dataset to analyze ‘Flexible remuneration in the Netherlands’. The study results were debated during a special conference in June and have been published as a brochure with the same title by FNV Press.
Some other outstanding outcomes are: the lowly paid are less afraid of performance pay than the highly paid, and likewise elderly workers have less problems with being paid according to performance than their younger colleagues.
Flexibel Loon (in Dutch, pdf, 720 Kb)