The Dutch social affairs minister has been criticised across the political spectrum for suggesting young jobless people from depressed French suburbs could take up jobs in the Netherlands.
Karien van Gennip was trying to address shortages in the Dutch labour market and added that “work also helps people get on the right track”.
Political figures quickly pointed out a million Dutch people were out of work.
The minister quickly backtracked, saying the French idea was not a plan.
But Macron said we only had to go across the street for a job!
Indeed. Let the Netherlands put their own house in order first. Nowhere is there such age discrimination as NL, where you are considered totally useless as an applicant in the job market when reaching the grand old age of fifty. Literally everyone is aware this is happening and even though age discrimination is against the law, it is so ingrained in the national psyche that rarely anything is being done about it. Employers keep wining they can’t find anyone, that there is a labour shortage, but would rather burn in hell than hire, or even invite for an interview, the fifty-plus jobseeker, even when they are experienced. When it comes to the crunch, most employers refuse to walk the talk.
This is just such a lol thing to say. That said her actual argument (if she was being serious) that before bringing non EU immigrants they should consider their own unemployed people and those in other EU counties makes sense.
>Joblessness is particularly acute in the high-immigrant suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis in northern Paris and northern districts of Marseille in the south.
Yes, please, very good idea !
In the end, I dont´see it as such a bad idea. We should aim to have a Common Job Market also.
Sometimes our politicians are really out of touch…
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The Dutch social affairs minister has been criticised across the political spectrum for suggesting young jobless people from depressed French suburbs could take up jobs in the Netherlands.
Karien van Gennip was trying to address shortages in the Dutch labour market and added that “work also helps people get on the right track”.
Political figures quickly pointed out a million Dutch people were out of work.
The minister quickly backtracked, saying the French idea was not a plan.
But Macron said we only had to go across the street for a job!
Indeed. Let the Netherlands put their own house in order first. Nowhere is there such age discrimination as NL, where you are considered totally useless as an applicant in the job market when reaching the grand old age of fifty. Literally everyone is aware this is happening and even though age discrimination is against the law, it is so ingrained in the national psyche that rarely anything is being done about it. Employers keep wining they can’t find anyone, that there is a labour shortage, but would rather burn in hell than hire, or even invite for an interview, the fifty-plus jobseeker, even when they are experienced. When it comes to the crunch, most employers refuse to walk the talk.
This is just such a lol thing to say. That said her actual argument (if she was being serious) that before bringing non EU immigrants they should consider their own unemployed people and those in other EU counties makes sense.
>Joblessness is particularly acute in the high-immigrant suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis in northern Paris and northern districts of Marseille in the south.
Yes, please, very good idea !
In the end, I dont´see it as such a bad idea. We should aim to have a Common Job Market also.
Sometimes our politicians are really out of touch…