Netherlands: government agency says short-time working leads to abuses

Planning Bureau (CPB), the national agency charged with economic studies and forecasts, are criticizing short-time working (Deeltijd WW), introduced in April. On the occasion of the publication of a book called “The Great Recession,” Coen Teulings and Casper van Ewijk, the CPB’s heads, think that this system generate inertia and abuses. (Ref. 090799)

According to the representatives of the very serious Central Planning Bureau (CPB), short-time working encourages employees to “stay down thinking