{"title":"A Comparison of Income Support Measures in the Netherlands for Employees and Independent Workers During the Covid Crisis","authors":"G. Boot","doi":"10.54648/ijcl2022021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Since the nineties a non-protective policy in the Netherlands stimulated to work as an independent contractor. This resulted in huge numbers of bogus self-employed, because compared to employees they were much cheaper to contract. Since 2012 the intention was spoken out to limit these numbers, but an effective remedy has not yet been developed. During the Covid pandemic, massive financial aid was given to companies, independent workers and employees. This helped to limit the level of unemployment and bankruptcies, but the number of independent workers is still growing. So the financial aid given during the pandemic has not helped to bring bogus self-employed under the scope of the employment agreement.\nIndependent Workers and Employees in the Netherlands: Qualification, Difference in Costs and Financial Aid During Covid-Crisis","PeriodicalId":44213,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2022021","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Since the nineties a non-protective policy in the Netherlands stimulated to work as an independent contractor. This resulted in huge numbers of bogus self-employed, because compared to employees they were much cheaper to contract. Since 2012 the intention was spoken out to limit these numbers, but an effective remedy has not yet been developed. During the Covid pandemic, massive financial aid was given to companies, independent workers and employees. This helped to limit the level of unemployment and bankruptcies, but the number of independent workers is still growing. So the financial aid given during the pandemic has not helped to bring bogus self-employed under the scope of the employment agreement.
Independent Workers and Employees in the Netherlands: Qualification, Difference in Costs and Financial Aid During Covid-Crisis
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