The municipality of stops with quarterly contracts. With it comes Amsterdam meets the protest of Flex workers provided by the municipality to the line be held in precarious, temporary contracts.
At the Stopera protested Thursday over two hundred people who are part of the flexible shell of the municipality: with a temporary contract, on call basis or as a temporary worker. Unexpectedly a lot, so the trade union FNV convened meeting had to be shifted to the outside air.
From their stories showed yet again that it is often not going to be temporary, but structural work: on The Nieuwe Ooster cemetery, on human resources, at the city cleaning, the town website and social service. By a carousel of temporary contracts or employment structures they work often for many years for the municipality.
a permanent job and the certainty, pension or travel expenses that go with them. So told webmaster Stefanie Wels how they thuiszat to her death sick partner to nurse and in the meantime in the stress was because her contract drew to a close.
The flexible Peel would even cover a quarter of the workforce, something where the municipality itself no assessment of says. Top scorer under the Flex workers is Ramon Olvira no less than eleven years for the municipality works, through several agencies.
Working conditions Arjan van Gils, as City Manager in charge of all officers, heard the grievances of the Flex workers and promised to will be looking at the biggest outliers. "I am not a gardener in the West country who wants to compete on labor costs." But he could not promise that everyone will get a permanent contract after two years. He would also like to not interfere in the working conditions for temporary workers.
From now on, six months minimum contract duration, he promised though, unless it really comes to short-lived jobs. That vacancies opened up are sometimes not for contractors who do that work now, according to him, by the aftermath of the major reorganisation within the municipality. Thereby enjoy fixed forces acting on another Department are fit for supernumerary rank.
http://www.parool.nl/by: BART VAN ZOELEN photo: REUTERS
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Eleven years flexen
Via employment agencies is Ramon Olvira (47) all eleven years working for the municipality of cleaning. The last years he wildgeplakte posters and graffiti off. Who in Amsterdam just around him, know: not exactly a job transient.
He drives through the city in a van of the municipality. "I have met all internal training that I can pick up. I have everything for them over, but they do nothing for me. " A permanent contract it doesn't get.
On the contrary, each time before joining the employment agency had to get a contract for an indefinite period, after two years or eight temporary contract, he was the door. After a pause or through another employment agency he returned back to the municipality. As a temporary worker, Yes.
"We can nothing plans. I also have a wife and children! But we can't go on vacation whenever I want. And holiday pay I get either. "' I have everything for the municipality the municipality about, but nothing for me '
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