WORK REINTEGRATION SCHEME
| NETHERLANDS |
| WERKERVARINGSPLAATSEN WORK REINTEGRATION SCHEME |
Labour market measures on training, etc., providing temporary jobs specially for the long-term unemployed and women returning to work (herintreedsters ), designed to give them the opportunity to acquire working experience or keep their existing experience up to date. The scheme was introduced in the Netherlands in 1989 following a national general accord between the social partners in 1988, as a remedy for the qualitative discrepancy between supply and demand in the labour market.
In the semi-public sector the unions and employers' associations had already concluded earlier agreements on recommended practice (beginselakkoorden ) regarding the provision of such jobs (in areas such as the staffing of old people's homes, home help services, the welfare sector and local transport). In the market sector, a number of collective agreements contain provisions of this kind.
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