In Europe, some economies are bouncing back as COVID-19 restrictions are eased. But for the Netherlands, there is a new problem on the horizon – a shortage of workers.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands.
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Get chefs from haiti
Its ironic that u do train job and when finished the shift , u take the train
plenty of engineers will soon arrive from afghanistan 🙂 plenty of young men
@Mirochi no we will send them to europe
They have large cawks for pleasing Dutch women
@Mirochi we have plenty of them though in Switzerland, especially hazara, but you are probably right the families stay behind in turkey or iran and they try their fortunes
@Jaw Shark ha ha ha
@Maurazio ha ha ha very funny.
In a lot of places college/university has been unaffordable. These jobs require advanced training and experience. I don’t know when they’re going to all realize this.
Similar problem in Germany. There is always a shortage in the healthcare sector, but you need impossibly high education to even have a chance to get a spot at a Uni for any kind of properly paying job. With the kind of requirements that they have over here, I always wonder how we even still have doctors..
@MrDarkbluewater Buddy “medicine” has always been a degree that required top grades, tho it’s weird you say that since I know of people who arent even from Germany they studied german, and scored top grades and are studying med in Germany currently.
Very simple… Go to countries where people struggle to get jobs and recruit them… Balanced. Don’t worry be happy.
Yeah i agree with yoy, like south africa has high youth unemployment , so why not let some south african youth come and work and Netherlands, as a SA citizen i would love to go to the netherlands
True they can even hire them with a worker visa
..and own nothing!!
Are there too few people, or too few willing to work?
Leave supply, demand, and pricing to voluntary transactions; and these issues solve themselves.
Try buying a home on their wage.
Indians are coming 😎😎
we come through front door only , that too with qualifications.
They can take in refugees from Afghanistan, easy 👍
The best answer, easily 😆😆😆😆
Someone help 🤣🤣me i want help netherlands firm i want job there❤️❤️
Could your hire Indian expatriats ?
no thanks stay in your country
@free live Did your ancestors (the colonists) stay in Europe? No? So we shouldn’t either.
Expatriates are simply immigrants, its the same
What is the income tax?
@michel tibon No too bad! I really thought european countries have higher taxes around 40-45%. 22 % is not too high
@Kyqorios Kygo Depends on your taxable income. Up to EUR 68,508 you pay 37,10% everything earned more then EUR 68,508 you pay 49,50%. But people should also tell you that you receive tax credits which brings your overall tax down to around 22%. Be aware in addition you also pay municipal tax.
@michel tibon At least you get free medical for life, which is a great deal!!☺️
@Kyqorios Kygo Only the sun is free. You have to pay for a monthly healthcare insurrance around EUR 115 per month.
@michel tibon I didn’t know that. Until what age do you have to pay for health insurance? Im curious
Prices for houses are out of control if you’re not gonna pay the worker enough to afford a house you can suck it. Your ceo can also not buy a third Yacht
do they need programmers or bankers those are my skills.
Oh WELL i can wrok if descent wages pay i can start from tomorrow
Netherlands: We want migrants out and we want to be useful idiots who follow Pro-Zionist racist opportunist reactionaries such as Geert Wilders
Also Netherlands: Boohoo we having shortage of workers…T_T
Pay enough and you will have plenty of employees. Now with Covid less immigrants are coming and magically you can’t pay starving wages anymore!
Netherlands house prices 600k €
Rail company wages after tax
1.5k to 2.2k maybe you can afford an house with 100 years of savings.
600k?! Try 200-300k.
@K3RS where?
@K3RS try harlen 120 k 🙂
Hire from Pakistan
You can have half of ours.. we got 2million migrant workers in my country…the ones with work permits that is.
I hope the whole Dutch Economy colapses , those slave traders dont deserve anything. An there racist as dutxh holiday good riddance. No chocolate for you.
Afghanistan refugees are ready to fill the void.
Here in Bangladesh, I’m searching for a job 😔
Many Bangladeshi work in Malaysia. They are a hardworking people. My farther employed some to work in our plantation. But they often face hatred and discrimination from the locals and being exploited by greedy employers.
@Fadly A. Rahman Now I’m studying International Relations. I haven’t completed my graduation because of Covid-19 pandemic. But I have a wish to go Malaysia for educational purposes. Keep me in your prayers and take love from me ❤️
Pay them fair wages and treat them with respect and voila
Pilipino is waiting for call. I’m the one
pay ppl good wages …problem solved and reduce living costs
If you pay people good wages, living costs will get high, too.
Boost numbers, advertise in Kabul
After a few years you will want to get into Kabul but they won’t give you visa because you don’t comply shariah law.
Nobody in their right mind wants to work for NS 🤣
Why?
Send American puppets from Afghanistan to Netherlands.
So it’s a “Western value” to want work-life balance??? White people never seize to amaze me with their ignorance. It’s even more astonishing when such a flippant statement is made with one’s entire chest. I absolutely can’t lol🤦🏾♀️
I’m in Netherlands and the salary is so low even though i have qualifications… i can barely afford my rent and have a normal life
@Aarif Zaheer Higher than India yes, especially in IT
@Mostafa Mchet above average in NL too…depends one education..my friend is data scientist abd has 120k
@Aarif Zaheer thats probably gross income. But in general it’s not ‘very high’ as u said in ur previous comment.
@Mostafa Mchet well u need to meet expats then…moat of them are above 5k gross per month
@Aarif Zaheer I know plenty expats, who r making money which they can only dream of in their home country. But the discussion is not about expats.
Take some workers from Bangladesh, India and African countries………
Why do you think is shortage of workers? Do you think there are not dutch people who can do these jobs? There are, but employers look for cheap expats
dutch workers don’t want to work for an starvation wages
Wait what about workers rights and paid time leave and all that good stuff Europeans are supposed to have? Have we been lied to?
In europe all of that stuff exists?? Compared to workers situation in countries like china, usa etc europe is heaven, so thats nooo excuse not to work, if you want a good ways you gotta earn it
@Cobus Smith This is biggest joke of century. Workers rights finished with employment agencies long time ago
neoliberal politicians. they’ve been hard at work ruining it for all of us.
Yeah, that is a problem, and hiring non-EU citizens isn’t going to solve it. These people coming from other impoverished parts of the world who do end up working in the Netherlands will realise that they won’t even earn enough for themselves with the current wages after sending most of their salaries in remittance and bills/rent.
This is exactly what will happen! Terrible!
You mean a country with high taxes and low wages has problems finding workers? Imagine that.
taxes aren’t the main problem. that’s 37% up until 68000. the main problem is the high cost of living, primarily housing.
Birth rates collapsed, native Dutch popualtion in rapid decline
Solution= immigration from youthful countries
If Dutch people make more children they wont have this problem, but yeah when theres no young people to work and support tons lf elderly people its a catastrophe, dutxh government really has to increase immigration to solve problem!!
And here I am.. Jobless with Masters in Electrical engineering…!!! Aahhhh… If only I can get a work visa for Netherlands..!!! 🇳🇱 The world works in a weird way..
How are you jobless with masters in electrical engineering?
@The Ford Wolf coz jobs are scarce here.. It a developing country with corrupt people in government…
@The Ford Wolf I am trying for scholarships for PhD to any European country or US or Canada etc but no luck yet..
@coolvips M a bachelor so can I like rent a room or something over there that wouldn’t cost much..?? Is it posisble..?
Haq Parast There are Canadian visa programs looking for people like you. In 2020 , a new immigration policy was launched in Canada to find highly skilled foreign workers. I wonder why you haven’t been successful. Try again
I’m willing to work for you if you pay me $2000 per month and help me fly to your country from Yemen…..
$2000 dollar equivalent you cannot get in Europe anymore. Very hard. If they will give you $600 will be taken in tax automatically from your pay. Then you have to pay tax for your house $200 every month then for your car insurance and tax $100 months. You will have left $1100 $500 house rent. $600 left. Car fuel, expenses $100 month. $500 left. Electricity, gas, water telephone bill $150. $350 left for your clothes food and some change if left to save or give to family back home. Enjoy Europe life
@Moto So, you’re welcome in Yemen 👻
too low wages, too high housing prices, too difficult to immigrate. So you get no local people wanting to work there, and no immigrants able to afford to come in to work either even if they are interested
To all the restaurant owners. Increase the salary and/or improve the work enviroment, there’s gotta be an incentive for workers to go back.
No problem ! This rise in payroll will come in customers expense
@Maciej Konferowicz if you can’t afford to pay your employees you can’t afford to run a business, it’s that simple.
@DumbNDutch dont worry about me running my business! Have a very successful restaurant for over 10 years! Im just telling dumb idiots where this money will come from
Train and give a job to the immigrants.
employees would need to pay them higher wages too, or they would not be able to live here.
Tell the dutch that if they pay for my school ill work as a financial advisor for them in 3 years
So increase immigration levels and hire more migrant workers from South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc. Young Afghans are ready to migrate and work.
Racism won’t let you stay in Netherlands.
They should hire more migrants from non-European countries.
Then they’d deport them back after their problem gets fixed.
Lmao. I have this warehouse job that keeps texting me practically begging to work for them.. its nice that ppl are not wanting to be treated as slaves anymore lol
I thought only English were lazy 🤔.
Obviously just a small section of them
Low wages…. it seems every country wants to do it China’s way….
@linkzable I agree with you 100%
The Netherlands can employ the 300,000 Afghan soldiers as security guards and runners!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂savage also 3k USA soldiers as well and 85 k Taliban as well love from Pakistan 🇵🇰 😂😂😂 broh savage ,
Seriously 🤍 Netherlands can contact Pakistan for skilled workers largest work force even with low labour cost
Take Afghans
Don’t worry. Illegal immigrants have watched this video. Dutch be prepared to welcome all engineers, doctors and PhD holders arriving at your border.
Pay a higher wage guarantee people will want to work.
You can find plenty of workers in South Asia.
Well, they need cheap labor immigrants in this case
nope, cheap laborers wouldn’t be able to afford to live here. it’s too expensive.
Sounds like it doesn’t pay enough that’s why there is a shortage of staff
No. People don’t want to work. Only an idiot works when they don’t have to. And the greedy freaking out because their slaves have freed themselves. I wish everyone could realize that we are all equal and should live and be treated equally. But the greedy rich want to keep people poor so they exploit them.
and these western countries thinking to win world war .😂😂😂😅🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻.Good luck
Get people from abroad
Hire Indians
Exact same problem is happening in Canada with the hospitality and tourism sector. The cafe in my neighborhood closes at 3 pm instead of 6 due to a worker shortage. What this report fails to mention along with business reporters in Canada is the poverty wages being paid in these industries.
Excuse me, this question may be dumb, but don’t you have one of the best economies in the world? why can’t you afford better wages for your employees?
Wanna go there
How is this possible when I was living there 100 people would apply for 1 job and it would take you minimum 6 months to find a job nd the worst part was when you become 23 not many companies would hire you cause then the employer had to pay you normal wage.
Greedy employees. Support your communist party and share with your working brothers and sisters.
pay people
Philippines is waving….
This What happened when abortion is very common
Pakistan 🇵🇰 ❣️,,🇳🇱 is available alot of skilled workers our hearts are open , low labour cost
Yes Fake doctor fake pilot fake engineer in pakistan 😂😂😂
They discriminate against people of other ethnicities then say they’re running out of workers 🙄
The dutch are hiring slaves not workers.People need their weekends to distressed.
Just don’t pump in islamic radicals…
As labour force…
Rest do whatever you want..
I think the raise in pay over the last years only covered the inflation. I think it is time for decent pay raises and not only in the Netherlands. Like Han, the Dutch banker said, not only decent pay raises but also a better work/balance arrangement gets more and more important in Europe. The productivity per hour worked is $61.43 in the Netherlands. Number 9 in the European ranking of 2021. The Netherlands has the second-lowest hours worked in an average full-time workweek among OECD countries of 37.3 hours. If recalculated to a 40 hours work week we would be number 5. Productivity is so high in the Netherlands that only 0.4% of employees work over 50 hours per week. The Dutch also have some of the best work-life in the world.
the only reason a banker emphasizes a work/life balance is because he doesn’t want to highlight the wages part.
South Africans can speak the language,and there’s many looking for jobs🇿🇦
Good luck!
*How do they compete with their rivals who manufacture in Asia? I bet you had no problem when Philips was exporting overpriced electronics to the rest of the world. The chickens have come home to roost*
The best chefs used to come from prison but now a days they get a microwave dinner too. so better to say home and get a six-pack from the Aldi 🙂
Time for the restaurant owners to find a new job times has changed.
No problem. Ask the Philippines. They will keep your economy running. They are hospitable and are Christians.
Christians? where all churches have become Aldi shop. 95% of real Dutch people are atheïst 🙂
@Xrss14842 I mean Christian belief is not linked to suicide bombing.
@Alberto Husay yes i see, well i like Asian people, we do have many Chinese here too. Everyone would probably tell you not to have a look in to the kitchen. They are a bit messy in case its a wonder you don’t get food poisoning 🙂 lol 😆
Work to live and don’t live to work… employers need to get it right
They should definitely recruit an individual to remove all that graffiti from their trains shown here in the video clip..
nobody cares about that except old people. what matters is if the trains run on time or not.
@DumbNDutch Well yes, I am older…However, spraying graffiti all over is a reflection of society.
Law and order hasn’t been a part of Dutch society in years.
Sooooo many Migrants Come to Europe but we have a shortage of workers. – Hmm 🤔
The western economies are feeling the effects of giving their population a criminal record and having a culture that would rather hire everyone else. COVID-19 is putting a stop to that practice, and good. I know which option I would choose- ditch the criminal record for the locals to apply for work; shortage solved.
The governments fault as usual.
i am on my way
I’m up for it.. If they want to..
Hahaha!! If anyone from Netherlands says they are underpaid. These people should be sent to east and southern European countries to show what the salary levels are. Problem with NL is the high taxation and vat. And the high inflation. Plus the black economy. Which no government wants to address.
only the right wing constantly wants to lower taxes and cut benefits, to line their pockets. go away. the real problem is the cost of living and low wages.
@DumbNDutch low wages ?? 😂😂😂😂😂 check other countries. See the cost of living. Why is it high? Because the gift allows black economy to run. And people can escape giving taxes. It’s horrid. So anyone who has an income pays for the thieves.
Hahaha!! If anyone from Netherlands says they are underpaid. These people should be sent to east and southern European countries to show what the salary levels are. Problem with NL is the high taxation and vat. And the high inflation. Plus the black economy. Which no government wants to address!!!
Treat your workers with dignity, even if the pay is not so high. During the covid lockdown, workers realized they were treated as numbers, not humans.
Get cheap but reliable workers from Indonesia your former colony.
Racist dirty liars
Here i am, Graduation with physics honours , ready to work with a descent salary
everyone commenting below saying ‘hire workers’ doesn’t realize how difficult it is to immigrate into this country. our immigration disservice sends back gay people to saudi arabia, works together with oppressive regimes to keep dissidents out and now doesn’t want to bring Afghan interpreters to safety despite the fact they worked for Dutch troops risking their life in Afghanistan.
if this country won’t even help those people, with legitimate asylum claims, what chances do you think an economic immigrant has?
Traitors of the motherland will sell your country before anything else. Why bring traitors?
I think we should give a little pause to Canada and send students to netherland from Punjab India.
Don’t worry guys, your every firm will get overcrowded with the workers.. and soon you will have to start deporting them. 😀
What this means is one of 2 things. 1) Either accelerate more automation to take over human jobs faster. This will be to the benefit of the elite rich establishment and their preferred method. Or 2) change the conditions of work to cater to the workers needs (such as higher compensation, more amiable working schedules & safe environment). Perhaps workers can win a short term concession, but Eventually I reckon former will eventually win out in the end.
I’ve been working in a Dutch company as a foreigner getting paid 6,5 euro/h, 12h shifts including nights and weekends. It was plenty of money in 2014 for a young polish lad like me, but i can’t imagine earnign this kind of money willing to live well in the Netherlands.
good. time to pay and respect workers..
Well they rejected me …they want only top scientists on lower salaries…I am not the best electronics engineer…but still…if they are so pretentious they should not complain they lack working force.
Why is everyone complaining about poor salary in Netherlands which has per capita income of 52k USD?
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haha stupid
How much do they get paid? How much is low wages? How much is a decent wage. Would someone please tell me? I’m not from Europe.
Yeah but how about the wages??
They can take in Afghanistan refugees and employ them