The Labor Party (PVDA, opposition) proposed, last 22 March, to introduce penalties for qualified women who do not work. This re-opened the debate on mothers' activity. (Ref. 06284)
“If you profit from an education to the expenses of the community, you should not be authorized to throw this knowledge with impunity”, explains Sharon Dijksma, Labour MP, in the columns of Forum, the newspaper of the Confederation of industry and employers of Netherlands (VNO-NCW). The penalty for housewives would come from a system of “student loan” that the PVDA wants to introduce: instead of seeing the students refunding over 15 years (or 25 years recently) the private bank loans contracted
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