Number of On-call Jobs Grows by Over a Third

By: Together Abroad 03-10-2016 12:29 PM
Categories: * Daily employment news,
The number of employees on on-call jobs has increased by more than a third in five years.Between 2010 and 2015, the number of on-call jobs increased by143,000, reported the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) on Tuesday. In 2010, this was about 5% of all jobs for workers. Last year the figure was 7%, and that amounts to 545,000 jobs. Young people aged 15 to 25 years fill in the vast majority of these jobs. More than half of the on-call jobs are pupils or students.

Hospitality (Horeca)
Particularly in the hospitality(Horeca) industry there are relatively as many workers on-call. A quarter of the workers jobs in this sector are on-call. Mostly as kitchen helpers 44%, followed by waiters and bar staff (35%) and cashiers (32%).
The percentage of on-call workers in the hospitality industry grew between 2010 and 2015 from 19% to 26%. The increase was particularly evident in 2014 and 2015.
The proportion of on-call jobs in the sectors of trade and culture, agriculture, and sports and recreation increased in the past five years as well. These are sectors with a relatively large number of on- call jobs. In health care and welfare, the percentage of on-call jobs slightly declined in the past two years.

Lowest Hourly Wage
The hourly rates for on-call workers vary greatly by industry. In the hospitality industry, on-call jobs had the lowest average hourly wage last year. That was per hour less than 10 Euros. This is partly because many young people work as on-call in the hospitality industry. They often earn the minimum wage. Almost three quarters of the on-call workers in the trade are between 15 and 25 years.
In the health and social care, and in education, the average hourly rate is much higher. In this sector the on-call worker is being paid an average of 17 Euros per hour. In this industry more than 40% of the on-call workers are 35 years or older. Only 34% are between 15 and 25 years.
Last year, more than half of the on-call workers worked in this way, out of a need for flexibility. Especially among the youngest (15 to 25 years) and oldest (65 to 75 years) age groups, the need for flexibility is more evident.
FNV trade union called the increases a big problem. “These are often people who do not even get enough hours to earn the minimum wage”, said FNV vice president Gijs van Dijk in a press statement. According to him, the employers should “stop making excuses and crying stories that they cannot do otherwise”.

FNV has already enforced a prohibition zero-hour contracts in the care sector, and wants to now also reach into other sectors. According to the union, corporate profits are high, while the incomes of workers remain low. Moreover, the number of “insecure contracts” rises.

Source: http://www.nu.nl
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