Jan Laurens Brinkhorst, the Minister of Economy, declared on June 26 in the newspaper De Volkskrant that Dutch workers must "work again forty hours a week". (Ref. 06658)
The minister, who belongs to the centrist party D66, said that the 40 hours work-week should become the rule again, like twenty years ago. The 38 hours work-week and incentives for part-time work were introduced in the 1980’s in many collective agreements, to obtain more flexibility and to allow the employment of more people – women especially – on the labour market. Today, part-time amounts to 46 % of total employment in Holland, compared to17 % in France and 18 % in Europe. Thanks to this, t
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