Slaughterhouse workers should be given permanent jobs: unions
Dutch NewsTrade unions FNV and CNV have called on caretaker social affairs minister Wouter Koolmees to press for fixed contracts for workers in slaughterhouses to improve working conditions and sideline predatory job agencies. The unions point to Germany where tens of thousands of foreign workers in the meat industry were given fixed contracts after the state intervened. The coronavirus crisis has put the spotlight on foreign workers even more, the unions said, highlighting how dependent workers are on the often shady job agencies for housing. But now the market is given over to lots of jobs agencies, particularly in the east of the country, which are earning good money by squeezing seasonal workers.’ The unions have said it would consider a transition period of three years for the switch to proper jobs, but that politicians can make it happen faster.
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