Flexible employment policies and working conditions: the Netherlands
report
The European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions has commissioned a research project to analyse the impact of flexible employment policies and human resources management on working conditions at the corporate level. Research institutes of seven countries participate in this project. For each country two or three cases are studied of organisations applying different flexible employment solutions. The seven countries are: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom. In this report the results of the Dutch case study are described. Two cases were studied: a company producing and selling sweets and a regional bus company. The main method of investigation was interviewing the personnel managers responsible for the flexible personnel situation in the organisation. Because of the current flexibility situation in the Netherlands, in which a new Law on flexibility and job security is enforced, two temporary employment agencies that supply these organisations with temporary personnel were also asked to participate in the study. The regional manager and the contract manager of the local agency office that delivers agency workers to the manufacturing industry and the general manager of the agency delivering personnel to the bus company agreed to participate. In addition, agency workers that work for these employment agencies in the two companies were interviewed by telephone.
TNO Identifier
274065
Publisher
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Place of publication
Loughlinstown