Stable working conditions with decline in work disability
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Commentary
Due to changes in work disability legislation, the work disability rates have dropped quite dramatically by more than 100.000 employees in four years. This implies that more employees with medical problems remain in the workforce. It is therefore noteworthy that overall the state of health of Dutch employees remained stable, with 90% reporting good or excellent health. Furthermore, given that more employees with medical problems remained at work, it might have been expected that work absenteeism rates would rise when, in fact, they actually fell.
Statistics Netherlands (CBS) also monitors the health of those who are not in employment (Figure 3). The figure shows that while among these groups, in general, in 2008 their level of health was quite stable, or even slightly better than among similar groups at the turn of the century, this is not true for the group described as ‘stay at home mums and dads’. This may indicate that there is a group of employees who voluntarily stop working because of their health problems, thus dropping out of the employee (and most other) statistics.
Figure 3: Percentage of persons in (very) good health among those not in employment
Source: CBS
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