Nearly 50 percent of the 3,000 of staff at the Albert Heijn retail centers are still precarious, according to the FNV and Allies. These six centers supply the country’s 800 Albert Heijn supermarkets. The part of temporary workers or workers paid youth minimum wage on a part-time job has reached an average of 40 percent across the company, according to the FNV which has decided to sue. There will be a hearing on April 27, to force the supermarket chain to fulfill its promises. In December 2010, after a wave of strikes in the Albert Heijn retail centers, the management promised to bring the amount of “flexwerkers” (precarious workers) down to 23 percent. Yet, the FNV says that nothing has changed since and is appealing to “corporate social responsibility.” “An employee who doesn’t know if he will still have a job when his contract ends cannot buy a place to live or know how to pay bills” reminded Marcel Nuyten, FNV Bondgenoten negotiator at Albert Heijn. “Keeping all these workers in the periphery seems anti-social” he went on. The FNV’s case is solid: according to a survey the union did in March among the precarious staff at the Albert Heijn supermarkets, 75 percent of respondents would like to keep their job and have a permanent contract.
The Dutch Labor Federation and Allies (FNV Bondgenoten) decided to sue the Albert Heijn supermarkets to force them to bring the number of precarious workers from 40 down to 23 percent. (Ref. 120281)
Nearly 50 percent of the 3,000 of staff at the Albert Heijn retail centers are still precarious, according to the FNV and Allies. These six centers supply the country’s 800 Albert Heijn supermarkets. The part of temporary workers or workers paid youth minimum wage on a part-time job has reached a
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