Nja, hoe gelukkig zijn mensen als ge ze dwingt tot werk dat niet bij hen past of dat hun vorig werk is, maar niet aangepast aan hun conditie?
De genadeloze machine van “altijd maar hogere prestatie” maakt mensen kapot. En dan komen klagen dat er niet genoeg mensen zijn, maar ook zelf niet willen veranderen om die mensen binnen te halen…
It’s almost like they’re wasting money to harass sick people who don’t fit in their “work or die” society model.
Het is ook bedoeld om na maximum 2 jaar terug voltijds te kunnen werken. Wie chronisch ziek is en kans op herval heeft, is er aan voor de moeite. Herval betekent herberekening van je uitkering op basis van je laatste, vaak lagere, loon. Maw je duwt elke keer mensen proberen te werken en daar in falen, hen een stukske dieper de financiële put in.
Controles op werkbaar werk, of of de werkgevers wel doen wat ze beloofd hebben ( oa met geld van premies om die mensen aan te werven) is onbestaande.
En de kers op de taart is uw belastingsbrief het eerste jaar nadat je deeltijds werk hervat.
Hoe zou dat nu toch komen dat mensen het niet aandurven om terug te gaan werken? /s
Tl;Dr: Belgium has a very big problem with mismatching skills and jobs, up to the point we are statistically the worst in the EU.
– > Our analysis also finds that training and start-up incentives are negatively associated with the incidence of LTU. These are consistent with the literature on the effects of active labor market policies (ALMPs) on employment, which shows that training and private sector employment programs are generally more effective in alleviating unemployment in the medium-to-long term, while direct job creation is less effective (Card et al., 2010, 2018).
– > According to our estimates, labor market matching efficiency for the EU generally declined after the GFC. One of the key instruments to improve the job matching efficiency, particularly for the disadvantaged and the long-term unemployed, is to strengthen the role of public employment services (PES).
A very interesting statistic that is not talked about at all which was very clear in the report, is that matching jobs and skills is something that Belgian employers/employment services are VERY bad at. I’m talking worst in the EU by a decent margain (graph p.17). FFS, the graph on page 32 is honestly sad to look at. It’s almost as if people in Belgium are deliberately getting a mismatched job. No wonder so many people are unhappy with their job.
Oh the wonderful world of employers and politicians who think they know better than a professional doctor.
I had an employer tell me I was underperforming when I returned to my job as a f*** cripple. When I had to return to the hospital after an infection to my badly healed wounds, I got reprimanded for not taking my job seriously. I’m sorry, they are talking about amputating my leg and you think I actually care about the damn job? They were right, I didn’t. Found another one that paid double, trained me as a programmer and made the necessary adjustments for my (temporary) wheelchair. And in the meantime I had 3 meetings with doctors urging me to go back to work (they usually shut up after seeing the MRI scans). After 3 years I finally got recognized as an invalid, though I managed to work full time. I probably won’t make it to my pension, so there is that. I won’t cost the country too much.
And my husband had cancer. Employers seem to think that if it is past tense that there are no issues left. So they expect him to return full time. Because of the chemo he has memory issues. Because of the surgery he has problems with his bowels (think Cron’s). Because he can’t get the nutrition from food and always feels nausea and has to be within 5m of a bathroom, he is chronically tired. But hey, he looks alive, so he just should be able to work. Again, the employer knows better than the oncologist. The fact that the last time he could sleep more than 4 uninterrupted hours was pre-cancer (so more than 4 years ago) – the employer doesn’t care about that.
He can’t return full time, they can’t fire him. So they give him the shittiest jobs a monkey could perform in the hope he quits.
But what bugs me more than employers and politicians, are the “regular” people. I quit a charity because the other volunteers were always going on and on about the “system abusers and fakers”. It’s not because I am not in a wheelchair that I’m not sick. It’s not because you don’t now how a person feels and he looks ok, that he is ok. You don’t know the cost of that ‘ok’. “Your husband looks fine!” Yeah, he does. You haven’t been there when I’m holding up his hair when he loses his lunch/dinner once again…
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Nja, hoe gelukkig zijn mensen als ge ze dwingt tot werk dat niet bij hen past of dat hun vorig werk is, maar niet aangepast aan hun conditie?
De genadeloze machine van “altijd maar hogere prestatie” maakt mensen kapot. En dan komen klagen dat er niet genoeg mensen zijn, maar ook zelf niet willen veranderen om die mensen binnen te halen…
It’s almost like they’re wasting money to harass sick people who don’t fit in their “work or die” society model.
Het is ook bedoeld om na maximum 2 jaar terug voltijds te kunnen werken. Wie chronisch ziek is en kans op herval heeft, is er aan voor de moeite. Herval betekent herberekening van je uitkering op basis van je laatste, vaak lagere, loon. Maw je duwt elke keer mensen proberen te werken en daar in falen, hen een stukske dieper de financiële put in.
Controles op werkbaar werk, of of de werkgevers wel doen wat ze beloofd hebben ( oa met geld van premies om die mensen aan te werven) is onbestaande.
En de kers op de taart is uw belastingsbrief het eerste jaar nadat je deeltijds werk hervat.
Hoe zou dat nu toch komen dat mensen het niet aandurven om terug te gaan werken? /s
Tl;Dr: Belgium has a very big problem with mismatching skills and jobs, up to the point we are statistically the worst in the EU.
I was looking up some stuff about this and found an interesting study done by the IMF about long-term unemployment ([here](https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2020/08/21/Mitigating-Long-term-Unemployment-in-Europe-49678)). Some interesting things I noticed:
– > Our analysis also finds that training and start-up incentives are negatively associated with the incidence of LTU. These are consistent with the literature on the effects of active labor market policies (ALMPs) on employment, which shows that training and private sector employment programs are generally more effective in alleviating unemployment in the medium-to-long term, while direct job creation is less effective (Card et al., 2010, 2018).
– > According to our estimates, labor market matching efficiency for the EU generally declined after the GFC. One of the key instruments to improve the job matching efficiency, particularly for the disadvantaged and the long-term unemployed, is to strengthen the role of public employment services (PES).
A very interesting statistic that is not talked about at all which was very clear in the report, is that matching jobs and skills is something that Belgian employers/employment services are VERY bad at. I’m talking worst in the EU by a decent margain (graph p.17). FFS, the graph on page 32 is honestly sad to look at. It’s almost as if people in Belgium are deliberately getting a mismatched job. No wonder so many people are unhappy with their job.
Oh the wonderful world of employers and politicians who think they know better than a professional doctor.
I had an employer tell me I was underperforming when I returned to my job as a f*** cripple. When I had to return to the hospital after an infection to my badly healed wounds, I got reprimanded for not taking my job seriously. I’m sorry, they are talking about amputating my leg and you think I actually care about the damn job? They were right, I didn’t. Found another one that paid double, trained me as a programmer and made the necessary adjustments for my (temporary) wheelchair. And in the meantime I had 3 meetings with doctors urging me to go back to work (they usually shut up after seeing the MRI scans). After 3 years I finally got recognized as an invalid, though I managed to work full time. I probably won’t make it to my pension, so there is that. I won’t cost the country too much.
And my husband had cancer. Employers seem to think that if it is past tense that there are no issues left. So they expect him to return full time. Because of the chemo he has memory issues. Because of the surgery he has problems with his bowels (think Cron’s). Because he can’t get the nutrition from food and always feels nausea and has to be within 5m of a bathroom, he is chronically tired. But hey, he looks alive, so he just should be able to work. Again, the employer knows better than the oncologist. The fact that the last time he could sleep more than 4 uninterrupted hours was pre-cancer (so more than 4 years ago) – the employer doesn’t care about that.
He can’t return full time, they can’t fire him. So they give him the shittiest jobs a monkey could perform in the hope he quits.
But what bugs me more than employers and politicians, are the “regular” people. I quit a charity because the other volunteers were always going on and on about the “system abusers and fakers”. It’s not because I am not in a wheelchair that I’m not sick. It’s not because you don’t now how a person feels and he looks ok, that he is ok. You don’t know the cost of that ‘ok’. “Your husband looks fine!” Yeah, he does. You haven’t been there when I’m holding up his hair when he loses his lunch/dinner once again…