Statistics Netherlands reports that freelancers and other workers with a flexible employment relationship earn 48% less per hour than employees with a permanent contract. This difference is largely explained by background characteristics. Flex workers are on average younger and less educated. If these characteristics are taken into account, the difference between the two groups is only 7%.
Read on: in English ... in Dutch ...
For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org.
For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org.