Thousands of Youths Demonstrate for the Abolition of Youth Wage

By: Together Abroad 14-10-2015 12:22 PM
Categories: * Daily employment news, ** HR Legal Clinic,
On Saturday 10 October, thousands of youths protested against the minimum youth wage in Amsterdam.

The Parool writes based on an interview with the organiser of the demonstration, Young & United. In Europe, The Netherlands is one of the few countries with a separate wage for young people. Workers who are eighteen years old or younger sometimes earn as much as 45.5 percent less than the normal minimum wage in The Netherlands. According to Paul Haars from Young & United, the atmosphere during the demonstration was described as “very energetic.”

The House of Representatives

A majority of the House supported the motions from D66 MP Steven van Weyenberg. He advocated for a substantially higher minimum wage. The organisers of the protest want the minimum youth wage to be abolished entirely and replaced with the normal minimum wage.

The House of Representatives wanted Lodewijk Asscher, minister of Social Affairs and Employment, to prevent an increase in the minimum youth wage, as they believed it would lead to an increase in school leavers, resulting in more trading education for work training instead.

Source: Nu, Het Parool
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