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| Titel: | Shaping Working Hours: de maakbare arbeidstijd
| | Onderwerp: | rapport: van conferentie van 1 juli 1999 te Amsterdam, van het AIAS over arbeidsmarkt en deeltijdwerk | | Auteur: | Onbekend | | Uitgever: | C. Baaijens | | Publicatiejaar: | 1999 | | ISBN-nummer: | Geen | | Verkooppunten: | AIAS, 020-5253400 | | Omschrijving: | In july 1999, the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) organised a conference titled De maakbare arbeidstijd, focusing on working hours. Proposed legislation to award employees the legal right to adjust their contractual working hours upwards or downwards under certain conditions provided the impetus for the conference. The bill is currently under debate in the Lower House of the Dutch Parliament.
Part-time work is fairIy common in the Netherlands. In 1998, almost 2 mil/ion people or 30% of the active workforce were employed part-time (CBS, 1999a). The definition ofa part-time job is working 12 hours or more a week but less than 35 hours a week. Most part-time employees, however, are female. In 1998, around 1.5 million women (60% of the active female workforce) were employed part-time compared to 455,000 men (11% of the active male workforce). Research shows that female part-time work is roughly equal to female fulltime work in terms of wage and employment status, for example (Tijdens, 1997). Various studies confirm that women˙s wages do not depend on their workours (Bakker et al., 1999; Spijkerman & Venema, 1998), This is part I y due to efforts on the part of government, unions and employers since the mid-1980s to secure equal treatment for part-time and full-time employees
1998), The Dutch situation contrasts sharply to countries such as the US, the UK, France and Germany, where part-time jobs are often considered to be marginal (Visser, 1999). |
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