Netherlands: new bonus to boost the employment of low-skilled workers

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Planet Labor, June 4, 2009, No. 090604 – www.planetlabor.com
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s and keep low-skilled workers most likely to be laid off. In exchange, businesses have to train them. This measure arrives when mobility on the labor market is strongly diminished. (Ref. 090604)

This bonus may reach 2,500 euros per new recruit, provided that the company invests the same amount into training. These bonuses for lowest skilled workers will reach a total of 72 million euros, taken from the 700 million provided by the State to face the crisis until 2011. The center-left coalition in

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